Hi John,

Deep within the Florida Everglades, the Trump administration and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are fast-tracking a massive detention center cruelly named "Alligator Alcatraz."

This moral and ecological catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes.

The Center for Biological Diversity is already in court to stop this dangerous project.

Please stand with us by giving to the Wildlife and Wild Places Defense Fund. Thanks to generous champions of the wild, your gift will be matched.

Construction is ongoing. New paving, light pollution, and pesticide spraying are happening right now. People are already being held there in horrifying conditions.

Irreversible damage within the Big Cypress National Preserve is occurring every day — and getting worse.

This facility could hold up to 3,000 people and is being rushed through with no environmental analysis and no public input, especially from local Tribes who have called these sacred lands home for centuries.

It threatens delicate wetlands, surrounding waters, and dozens of rare and endangered species, like Florida panthers, Florida bonneted bats and Everglade snail kites.

It also jeopardizes decades of critically important Everglades restoration efforts.

The Center and allies have filed an urgent lawsuit and are fighting tirelessly in court for a temporary restraining order and injunction to prevent further damage and put an end to this disaster.

This unjust, immoral project is yet another attack on the public lands that belong to all of us. The Everglades should be home to wildlife -- not prisons.

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For the wild,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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