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Threatened grizzlies may soon be under attack! Double your impact to help protect them and our planet before the clock strikes midnight!
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Blooming flowers could be splattered by the blood.
A mama bear, limp and huffing out her last breaths on the forest floor.
The mama bear's only crime would be looking for food to provide for her babies. Instead of being able to go back to her cubs, she can be gunned down by trophy hunters -- leaving her cubs orphaned and alone. Friend, we can't leave these helpless cubs to fend for themselves. Today, make your $27 contribution to Friends of the Earth, and it will be MATCHED, dollar for dollar, up to our $150,000 goal -- but only until midnight TONIGHT. Help protect mama bears and their babies before it's too late!
Trophy hunters are tracking down and targeting bears across the U.S., putting them more at risk each day. Mama bears are being torn apart by bullets, leaving their babies to starve, freeze, or fall prey to other species. But private interests are working to remove grizzly bear protections so they can kill more bears and take over the lands they call home -- all to turn a profit.
Now, fewer than 2,000 grizzlies remain in the lower 48 states -- and trophy hunters show no sign of stopping the slaughter. We can't stand by and watch while they chip away at protections for grizzlies, opening up the lands they call home for the sake of mining, logging, and other devastating implications for the environment.
Don't let any more baby bears lose their mamas to ruthless trophy hunting: Donate $27 by midnight TONIGHT while your gift can make twice the impact for bears and the planet.
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At their peak, grizzlies in the continental U.S. numbered 50,000! But by 1975, reckless human activity, like hunting, trapping, and habitat loss, decimated their numbers. This prompted their Endangered Species Act protection.
Today, faced with shrinking habitat, the loss of critical food sources, and many impacts of climate change, grizzly bears are struggling to survive. Their populations outside Alaska have plummeted to a mere 2% of their historic population. Fewer and fewer cubs are surviving to reach adulthood. And adult bears are dying more quickly because of rapid changes -- from a shifting food supply to being forced to hibernate later and later in the fall.
Now, states in the northern Rockies are working to remove ESA protections for threatened grizzly bears.
Stripping grizzlies of their ESA protections would be devastating -- just last year, Idaho Fish and Game found a female grizzly with 12 BULLETS in her. She was shot an estimated 40 TIMES. This is the level of ferocity grizzly bears are facing without strengthened ESA protections.
Black bears are already facing the horrors that could await grizzlies if private interests succeed. Trophy hunters wait until they leave the safety of their dens to trap them with painful metal clamps or release hunting dogs to track and terrorize bears before they are murdered. No animal deserves this brutal fate.
Act now and help protect the ESA for grizzlies and our planet before it's too late. Make your $27 contribution today -- the FINAL match opportunity of the fiscal year.
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A top predator, grizzlies play a pivotal role in keeping our ecosystem healthy and in balance. Standing up to eight feet tall and weighing in at up to 800 pounds, these intelligent omnivores enhance biodiversity, enrich soils, regulate prey populations, and transport nutrients through different ecosystems as they roam far and wide. Scientists are continuously discovering more and more ways grizzlies play a pivotal role in the ecosystems they inhabit.
Endangered species laws provide critical protection for America's iconic animal species. They are also some of our most effective safeguards in the fight to protect our public lands and curb catastrophic climate change.
For the sake of our wildlife and for the sake of our planet, we can't let Big Polluters and their cronies in Congress destroy our public lands and wipe out our endangered species.
The ESA not only allows us to protect threatened species like grizzlies but is also a tool to help block Big Polluters from taking over their lands to mine, drill, frack, or set up destructive factory farms. Your membership support to Friends of the Earth today will allow us to take a stand against private interests who want to hunt down vulnerable species like bears, wreak havoc on their environments, and are contributing to ecological destruction.
The inhumane treatment of bears and their cubs cannot continue. One bullet will not only kill mother bears, but the slaughter means that her cubs will be left to die as well. Please, Friend, help us put a stop to the deaths of America's most iconic species and protect our planet before it's too late.
Friend, help save grizzlies from an unimaginable fate. Donate $27 now to help us reach our $150,000 goal by midnight TONIGHT.
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Standing with you,
Raena Garcia
Fossil fuel and lands campaigner,
Friends of the Earth
