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Hi John,
Gray wolves are one step closer to losing protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Once again, we face returning to the days when wolves nearly nationwide were shot on sight and left to suffer in traps.
We can't let that happen. Help save wildlife now with a gift to the Endangered Species Act Protection Fund.
A committee in Congress passed a funding bill that includes language to strip away federal protection from most wolves in the lower 48 states.
We've been here before, and we can predict what will happen: more hunts, more slaughter, more inhumane snares.
Wolves are still just getting a toehold on recovery after being driven to the brink of extinction — they eke out a living in less than 10% of their historic range.
In the few places where they exist today — like the northern Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes states and West Coast — they still face persecution.
It’s not just wolves. The same bill in Congress takes aim at grizzlies and other species, like northern long-eared bats and dunes sagebrush lizards.
It also aims to weaken the Act itself by shortchanging the agencies charged with saving wildlife.
This attack by far-right members of Congress comes at a time when the extinction emergency is calling for us to act with greater urgency to save species, not make it easier to wipe them out.
The greed that motivates those who want to kill wolves also pollutes our air and water and puts our life-support systems at risk.
Up to a million species are at risk of blinking out in the next few decades.
Wildlife on the brink need more protection, not politicians doing the bidding of industry to wipe out the wild.
Please help by making a gift to the Endangered Species Act Protection Fund today.
For the wild,
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