Dear NRDC Supporter,

Sometimes, we forget how far we've come.

Not that long ago, rivers caught fire from oil pollution. White birds turned black with soot. And our nation's symbol, the bald eagle, nearly went extinct.

It was then that a group of lawyers started NRDC with a vision to use the power of the law to protect our planet. With support from folks like you, we helped save the bald eagle and so much more.

To celebrate our incredible progress since then, a generous donor is sponsoring a 24-hour TRIPLE MATCH offer tomorrow on Endangered Species Day.

Will you fuel the next great chapter in our fight to save our imperiled wildlife and protect priceless ecosystems?

🦅🦅🦅Early-Bird Offer: Donate $5 before midnight tomorrow and your gift will be TRIPLE MATCHED, up to $80,000, to power NRDC's critical work solving today's greatest environmental challenges.🦅🦅🦅

During those dark early days when industry's impact on our environment had gone unchecked for nearly a century, NRDC sued as many bad actors as we could, from polluters to the government to logging and mining companies.

We've won so often since NRDC's inception in 1970 that it earned us a reputation as "one of the nation's most powerful environmental groups" (New York Times) and "the most effective lobbying and litigating group on environmental issues" (Wall Street Journal).

But these stories left out the most important part of our success: YOU.

Every victory throughout our history can be traced back to supporters who ensured we had the resources to keep fighting in court until we prevailed.

Today, we need your help again as we face dire threats to our planet, from rapidly worsening climate and biodiversity crises to more oil and gas drilling on our public lands and waters.

Make your early-bird TRIPLE MATCHED gift to power our next big victories for imperiled wildlife and our planet. Your $5 donation will go three times as far, up to $80,000, but only until midnight tomorrow.

With the news about our planet feeling so bleak, I think it's worth remembering something:

In the early 1970s, people were convinced bald eagles would become extinct. But against the odds, the Endangered Species Act helped bring them and many other imperiled wildlife back from the brink. Under 500 breeding pairs has become over 70,000 today.

Be a part of history: Support our work to defend the ESA and all our bedrock environmental laws so we can notch the next big win for wildlife and our planet.

Happy early Endangered Species Day, and thanks for standing with us.

Sincerely,

Katie Hobbs
Senior Legislative Advocate, NRDC