Hi John,

Congress has a new target in its assault on the wild: us.

Last week's attack — specific legislation aimed at banning funding for the Center for Biological Diversity — is a new low. Our opponents clearly know how effective we are at protecting the wild from greedy special interests. That's why they lashed out at us.

Please stand with us by giving to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. As of now, all gifts to this fund will be matched through the end of the year.

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We're used to anti-wildlife forces in Congress putting species like wolves, grizzlies, sage grouse and others in their crosshairs.

That they'd come after us by name just shows how desperate they are to stop our lifesaving work. Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles wants to ban the Center from receiving any funds from the U.S. Department of the Interior.

He must not have liked that we fought back against special interests and won protection for species in his home state like the Tennessee clubshell and Tennessee pigtoe mussels.

This is what we do.

For more than 30 years the Center has secured Endangered Species Act protection for 758 species and over half a billion acres of protected critical habitat.

That includes other animals we've protected this year, like California spotted owls, dunes sagebrush lizards and sunflower sea stars. We've also secured habitat protections for Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterflies, North Pacific right whales, five species of Caribbean corals, and more.

Those who do the dirty work for the fossil fuel industry and other special interests that destroy our planet — and worsen the extinction crisis — know how good we are at winning for wildlife.

We won't be intimidated, and we'll never stop our uncompromising approach to safeguarding species great and small.

This is our life's work — and the work is what gives us hope that we can save the mammals, birds, plants, lizards and insects that are counting on us.

Our opponents want to tear down that hope and stop us in our tracks. They don't stand a chance.

You can help by making a matched gift today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.

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For the wild,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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