Hi John,

Trump's "Extinction Committee" will now be led by an oil industry shill eager to plunder public lands.

Animals like polar bears, whooping cranes, and lesser prairie chickens could pay a steep price.

The anti-nature agenda of the new administration must be blocked, and the Center for Biological Diversity is already in court to do it.

Please help us fight back with a gift to the Future for the Wild Fund.

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On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order resurrecting a committee — nicknamed the God Squad — that hasn't met in decades.

Its purpose is to decide which species live or die — so that corporations can drill, mine and log the public lands that sustain the wild legacy belonging to all of us.

Doug Burgum, Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department and a cheerleader for Big Oil, will also chair that committee, which can overrule the Endangered Species Act. It will meet at least four times a year, and we know what to expect from those meetings: illegal workarounds so more oil wells can be built in the homes of rare and vulnerable animals and plants.

Species whose habitat is melting away because of a warming planet, like polar bears, will be further stressed. Far-ranging creatures like whooping cranes — and animals like lesser prairie chickens who depend on areas Trump's industry buddies want to develop — will have nowhere to hide.

The administration is wasting no time pursuing its scorched-earth agenda.

It's hunting for ways to pick apart the Endangered Species Act, the most powerful tool we've got to save imperiled wildlife.

Mere minutes after Trump was sworn in, the Center went to court to expose the undemocratic workings of Elon Musk and his minions. We're now bearing witness to an assault on the laws and policies that have kept people and wildlife safe for over half a century.

And that was just the first salvo in our resistance fight. This danger is unlike anything we've seen before.

Please give now to the Future for the Wild Fund.

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For the wild,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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