John,

Tiny dunes sagebrush lizards — under three inches long — are marvelously adapted to hunt beetles and spiders in the sand dunes anchored and shaded by shrubby oaks in west Texas and eastern New Mexico. This specialized niche gives these critters the second-smallest range of any lizards in North America — and their already limited habitat has been shrunk even further by oil and gas drilling and herbicides aimed at killing the oaks to make more grass for livestock. So 21 years ago, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to protect them under the Endangered Species Act.

Now, after many court battles — when most of their habitat is already gone — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finally proposing to list these little lizards as endangered.

Tell the Service to finalize that listing and protect their habitat — before it’s too late.