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Hi John,
Yellowstone grizzly bears could soon be back in the crosshairs.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is deciding on these bears' future protection. If it goes the wrong way, trophy hunters will be allowed to gun grizzlies down.
The Center is doing all we can to keep Yellowstone's grizzlies safe. Please help with a gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. All donations will be doubled.
When grizzlies lost federal protection in 2017, Wyoming and Idaho moved quickly to establish trophy hunts of these iconic bears.
We were able to stop those hunts and keep the bears fully protected under the Endangered Species Act. Now the Fish and Wildlife Service is again considering taking away their lifesaving protection.
Grizzly bears occupy only 6% of their historic range in the lower 48. They survive in just five isolated locations, where poaching, the dwindling of food sources, and habitat destruction continue.
Grizzlies can recover, but not if control is turned over to states whose idea of wildlife management is to hunt, trap and snare these creatures out of existence.
We're organizing our activists to keep the bears protected so we don't go back to the days — just decades ago — when their survival was at stake.
The Center has also taken legal action to stop a U.S. Forest Service plan to clearcut more than 5,500 acres of pine forests just on the border of Yellowstone National Park.
The logging project will destroy vital habitat for grizzly bears as well as lynx, wolverines, elk and other wildlife.
The extinction crisis is here — and it forces us to act with great urgency.
Wildlife won't make it if people bulldoze or pollute the areas they call home, and they don't stand a chance if the protections staving off extinction are removed.
We're doing all we can to save grizzlies and other species at risk.
Please support us with a matched donation to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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