|
Hi John,
Trump just took a hatchet to the Endangered Species Act.
His latest attack is a blueprint for extinction — and we'll fight it tooth and nail.
Please make an emergency gift now to the Future for the Wild Fund. Thanks to generous champions of the wild, your gift today will be matched.
This administration has unleashed one strike after another on public lands, imperiled species, and the laws protecting our air and water.
But this assault on the most powerful, lifesaving conservation law in the world is aimed at kneecapping conservationists everywhere — and will put species at desperate risk.
Trump and his big business backers want critical habitat designation to come to a screeching halt — and to add insult to injury, intend to weaken the process for listing species.
They aren't hiding their motives: By allowing money to be considered in decisions over which species get help and which are allowed to vanish forever, this administration is selling out animals and plants like never before.
This would be a death sentence for wolverines, monarch butterflies, Florida manatees, and so many others.
Another proposal would gut nearly all safeguards for wildlife newly designated as "threatened," making it much harder for species like California spotted owls and alligator snapping turtles to recover.
This contradicts everything the Act was made to do: save species and stop extinction.
We know how to fight back. It's what we've been doing since January, taking legal action against this administration every four days to protect the wild.
And it's how we're standing up to attacks on us, too. Going after the Act is a way to tear the Center down and keep us from winning for the wild. But we're not going to bend the knee.
No one wants to see the Endangered Species Act hollowed out so that species go extinct. We didn't ask for this onslaught, but we're here to stand up to it.
Because threats to wildlife are ongoing, we need you for the long haul. Please start a monthly donation to sustain our defense.
For the wild,
|
