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Hi John,
Gray wolves in the lower 48 could lose federal protection, thanks to a bill moving through Congress now.
The same bill removes protection from Yellowstone grizzlies and other imperiled species.
It's a brazen assault on the Endangered Species Act.
Please help save wildlife today with a gift to the Endangered Species Act Protection Fund.
House Republicans have advanced a funding bill specifically targeting wolves, grizzlies, northern long-eared bats, dunes sagebrush lizards and lesser prairie chickens.
But it goes further than that — it directly undermines our ability to save endangered species.
It shrinks the budget of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It does the same to the Environmental Protection Agency — cutting back to 1991 levels.
Without the money they need to operate, these agencies can't perform their essential duty to save wildlife and protect our air, water and climate.
The Endangered Species Act had already been carved up by former President Trump.
Now agencies like the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries want to keep in place the majority of Trump's nihilist policies — and push species like polar bears, northern spotted owls and Gulf sturgeon toward extinction.
President Biden's administration is missing a huge opportunity to fully restore the power of the Act. No other law is as effective at saving species on the brink — but only at full strength.
Now, with anti-wildlife forces taking direct aim at species and cutting funding to carry out lifesaving work, the extinction crisis could further worsen.
Up to 1 million species are at risk of winking out in the coming decades. Habitat destruction and worsening natural disasters are literally setting aflame our most fragile wildlife and ecosystems.
Now is the time to act with great urgency to save the wild. But those in power want to take us backward — and leave us with a lonelier world.
Extinction is a choice. We choose to save species great and small, and we know you do too.
You can help now with a gift to the Endangered Species Act Protection Fund.
For the wild,
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