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WILDLIFE IN THE NEWS “These are blatant and brazen efforts to undermine the Endangered Species Act and will further put at risk migratory birds and already imperiled wildlife... These orders are reckless and issued at a time that America is not experiencing an energy emergency, but rather a crisis of species and habitat loss.” Robert Dewey, Vice President of Government Relations, on secretarial orders from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Read Here → Tell Congress not to give away public lands to massive logging projects! A new bill called the “Fix Our Forests Act” is in truth a massive giveaway of public lands to the logging industry. Framed as a solution to wildlife fires, the bill would actually make fires worse by cutting down resilient and irreplaceable old-growth trees. The Senate could take action on this bill soon! Send a message urging your senators to support vital environmental protections by opposing the “Fix Our Forests Act”! Let’s Not Sacrifice the Natural World to Build an Artificial One President Trump’s executive order declaring an “energy emergency” seeks to grease the skids for energy development, in part to satisfy the energy demands of artificial intelligence. That includes bringing back a group with the power to decide which species can be doomed to extinction. Read More → Historic Transfer Brings Yellowstone Bison to First Nations in Canada Last week a family group of Plains bison were moved across the U.S.-Canadian border as a gift from the Fort Peck Tribes in Montana to Mosquito Grizzly Bear’s Head Lean Man First Nations in Saskatchewan. Hear from those involved as we honor this important milestone. Read More → The History of Grizzly Bears and their Protections in the Lower 48 An icon of the American West, grizzly bears were nevertheless driven from much of the landscape in the 19th century. We cover how grizzly bear populations and the landscape have changed over the years in order to understand what may happen next. Read More → Take It from the Cranes: Wetlands in California California’s sandhill cranes go where the water is, which means changes in wetlands directly impact these birds. We explore how protecting our waters is key for both wildlife and humans. Read More → Make your recurring gift! Becoming a recurring donor places you among our most committed and valued supporters. Your gift will help us fight around the clock to counter the growing threats to wildlife. Become a Wildlife Guardian → The BUZZ in DAF giving is growing! Find out why more people are recommending a special gift from their Donor Advised Fund (DAF) to Defenders of Wildlife. Help wildlife thrive for generations with a DAF gift! Get Started Today → Defenders of Wildlife 1130 17th Street NW • Washington, DC 20036 defenders.org Photo credits: Polar Bears © Susanne Miller/USFWS | Izembek wilderness © Kristine Sowl - USFWS | Herd of Bison © Pixabay | Grizzly Bear © Sam Parks | Sandhill Crane with Chick © Ursula Dubrick/fStop Foundation | Gray wolves © Ramiro Marquez Photos/iStockphoto | Bald Eagle © Derek Grig | Bumble Bees © Jan Facinelli

Your Signature Is Needed: Breaking FWS decision confirms grizzly bears need federal protections to avoid extinction

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BREAKING: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just announced its long-awaited decision that grizzly bears still require federal protection under the Endangered Species Act! The FWS decision to keep grizzly bears listed under the ESA confirms that these majestic animals are still significantly IMPERILED and in dire need of federal safeguards to prevent their EXTINCTION. Grizzly populations remain threatened by human activities — including violent trophy hunting backed up by Donald Trump and his cronies who want to hunt these iconic animals for sport. Now, in order to help secure a hopeful future for this threatened species, we must move forward on tangible action steps by updating the FWS Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan with a new approach — using scientifically-backed strategy, site-specific management actions, and the latest conservation practices. Please, can vulnerable grizzlies count on you to step up TODAY and sign our petition telling your members of Congress support this life-saving Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan? Take action now before it’s too late! >>

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Tell Congress: Keep Grizzlies Protected

 

TAKE ACTION Grizzly bears are one of our country’s most iconic species. Like gray wolves, they play a critical role in maintaining the balance of their ecosystems and represent what we can do when we work together to restore a species. While we have made great strides bringing bears back, the job is not finished and it is far too early to strip them of protections. Send your Members of Congress an email today supporting the continued protection of grizzly bears. The Biden Administration will soon announce their decision on continued protections for grizzly bears and some in Congress are already trying to "delist" them legislatively. We know what awaits grizzly bears if they lose these protections. Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are becoming more aggressive towards wolves and other large carnivores in recent years. Slashing these protections could expose these bears to trophy hunting and bring grizzly bear recovery, region-wide, to a grinding halt. The recovery of grizzly bears has only been possible with the protections of the Endangered Species Act. Slashing these protections now–before the job is finished–could erase nearly five decades of work. Please email your senators and representative today and tell them that you support the continued protection of grizzly bears under the highly-successful Endangered Species Act. Thank you for your commitment to wildlife and wild places. Sincerely, The Endangered Species Coalition Connect with Us    If you would like to contact us, please visit our website at endangered.org.

Don't look away - Nearly 100 grizzlies gunned down in massive helicopter hunt.

 

This is terrifying. Last year, rifle-wielding state officials in Alaska took to the skies for a massive helicopter chase and GUNNED DOWN nearly 100 mama bears and innocent cubs! As bullets rained down, mama bears desperately scrambled to escape with their precious babies. But they crumpled to the ground one after another, leaving their helpless cubs to cling to their mangled bodies.  How could a massacre like this happen? Alaskan officials told these hunters to KILL EVERY BEAR THEY SAW. This could be just the beginning of a bloody era of unrestricted slaughter that could push grizzlies in the lower 48 states into EXTINCTION – all because extremist trophy hunters are attacking the Endangered Species Act to strip these mama bears and cubs of lifesaving federal protections. The ESA is critical to ensuring lasting protections for vulnerable species like our majestic grizzlies. Without it, the tiny grizzly population we have left in the lower 48 states could be torn apart by vicious hunting dogs; left to struggle, bleed and starve in inhumane traps; and mercilessly pumped with bullets like we just saw in Alaska. On top of slaughtering irreplaceable wildlife, anti-environment interests could open up grizzlies’ habitats to mega-polluting drilling, logging and mining projects with disastrous consequences for people and planet. We can’t let that happen. That’s why we need 14 more people, including you, to tell us where you stand in this fight. But our response deadline is at 11:59 p.m. TONIGHT, so please don’t wait!

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Sign The Petition: Stop the bloody massacre of precious grizzly bears and cubs

 

Since grizzly bears were granted protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1975, grizzlies in the lower 48 states have started to rebound, restoring their population from 800 bears to almost 2,000.   However, for an animal that once roamed freely in its native North American terrain, that number is still frighteningly low. And with brutal trophy hunters recklessly murdering these iconic mammals in droves, grizzly bears are getting closer to EXTINCTION every day.  We’ve already seen how effective ESA protections are in the recovery of vulnerable wildlife like bears. But rather than strengthening these policies to safeguard our grizzlies, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) is currently considering COMPLETELY DELISTING GRIZZLY BEARS from being covered under the ESA’s safeguards — putting this dwindling bear population in even further danger of being TOTALLY WIPED OUT by violent hunters.  We can’t allow extremist politicians and their hunting lobby friends to reverse decades of conservation efforts of this nationally treasured species. We must speak up NOW if we’re going to SAVE grizzly bears. Can defenseless grizzlies count on you to be a voice for them today? Add your name now to demand ESA protections for grizzly bears before it’s too late! >> SIGN THE PETITION Trophy hunters show absolutely NO mercy when killing harmless grizzly bears. They deploy some of the cruelest and most inhumane hunting methods like bait, poison, traps, rifles, and even dynamite to blow up helpless cubs asleep in their dens!  Mama bears will do anything to protect their fragile cubs who are too weak to survive on their own. But even the fiercest mama bear can’t compete with the powerful and advanced weaponry that hunters use to violently massacre grizzlies. And when mama bear doesn’t return home to the den, her sweet, orphaned cubs are left alone to DIE of starvation or hypothermia.  No animal or living being deserves the tortuous persecution that vicious hunters subject these innocent bears to. The Endangered Species Act is one of the strongest policy tools that we have to safeguard grizzlies — and they absolutely cannot afford to lose these life-saving ESA protections.   You have the chance to make a meaningful difference in the fate of grizzly bears today: FWS is deliberating on whether to remove or keep federal ESA protections for grizzlies while you’re reading this email, and every single petition signature from grassroots activists like you has a CRUCIAL impact on saving this keystone species from extinction. Grizzlies are in trouble, but your action today could help spare countless bear lives. Help us send a powerful message to FWS and demand ESA protections for grizzly bears immediately! >>  SIGN THE PETITION Thanks for being a voice for our precious grizzly bears,  Friends of the Earth  Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA PO Box 7010 Merrifield, VA 22116-7010 1-877-843-8687 Contact us Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org Connect:

Goal Missed: Trump has the blood of innocent animals on his hands

 

We had to give you an urgent update on our Endangered Species Day goal to help protect our planet and its most threatened inhabitants. But it’s not looking good: We checked our numbers, and we fell short of what we needed to raise yesterday. We KNOW the trophy hunting lobby and their Big Polluter allies won’t soften their attacks on our precious wildlife or the ecosystems they need to survive. So we can’t afford to slow down our efforts to fight back either! That’s why we had to extend our deadline for ONE MORE DAY to give us the best chance of closing our fundraising gap, and we’re relying on environmentalists like you to take advantage of this extension before it EXPIRES.  Will you rush an urgent membership gift to Friends of the Earth Action now, before our limited extension expires at midnight TONIGHT, to help hit our Endangered Species Day goal and protect the only Earth we’ll ever get? If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $15 immediately → Donate $25 immediately →  Donate $50 immediately →  Donate another amount Without urgent action, majestic species like our gray wolves and grizzly bears won’t know a moment’s peace. They could spend the next winter avoiding gruesome deaths: In some states, they could be watching their families get MANGLED by hunters’ bullets or BLOWN UP with dynamite while sleeping in their dens! Trophy hunters are so committed to their cruel and brutal tactics that they want to attack wolves, bears, and their helpless babies when they're at their most vulnerable! Now, as wolves and bears rebuild their strength from the lean winter months, they could be gunned down by BARBARIC artillery weapons that spew bullets at THOUSANDS of miles per hour! Even the fastest animals on Earth can’t dodge this violent onslaught. We MUST take action for threatened species that can’t fight back for themselves and protect our planet before it’s too late. If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $15 immediately → Donate $25 immediately →  Donate $50 immediately →  Donate another amount It gets worse: Trophy hunters are moving to remove protections to SLAUGHTER entire wolf packs and mama bears, and greedy corporations are joining their efforts to lobby against the Endangered Species Act (ESA)! They’re working day in and day out to REMOVE these lifesaving protections and push iconic species toward EXTINCTION!  Once they get wolves and bears out of the way, destructive industries like drilling, mining and logging can swoop in and DESTROY their forest habitats for profits! That would be a MAJOR BLOW to our planet’s struggling ecosystems and would worsen the biodiversity crisis we’re seeing all over the globe. More than ONE MILLION species are at risk of being wiped out by human activity and the ecological chaos it’s unleashing!  These attacks on the ESA didn’t come out of thin air. The Trump administration went all out to weaken this critical law in a dead giveaway to his corporate buddies. The blood of innocent animals is on its hands! But corrupt GOP politicians don’t seem to care how many wolf pups and baby bears are MURDERED because of their anti-environment schemes, as long as their extremist supporters and friends in Big Oil stay happy. Tearing down the ESA proves that they’re also willing to risk destroying everything it stands for: our forests, our national clean water supply and our LAST CHANCE to address the climate crisis! So you see, this is the WORST possible moment to fall short of our goal. We MUST ramp up our efforts to stop dirty industries from wreaking havoc on vital habitats and pushing ecosystems to collapse. That fight gets even harder if we lose the Endangered Species Act and the law shifts in favor of Big Oil!  Please, don’t let our goal extension go to waste. Every dollar you give now supports our work to protect our fragile planet and the treasured species we share it with. Rush your membership gift of $15 or more now, in service of Endangered Species Day, to help Friends of the Earth Action protect our wildlife, communities and the only Earth we’ll ever get. If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $15 immediately → Donate $25 immediately →  Donate $50 immediately →  Donate another amount Thank you for your urgent support today, Raena Garcia Senior Fossil Fuels and Lands Campaigner Friends of the Earth Action Contact Us Friends of the Earth Action Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA PO Box 7010 Merrifield, VA 22116-7010 1-877-843-8687 Contact Us Learn more foeaction.org Connect