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Hi John,
More than 400 manatees have died this year — at a pace even worse than last year. It had been hoped Florida manatees' plight was improving.
Now the Trump administration is paving the way for even more harmful and toxic activities in sensitive waters and wetlands across the United States. Marine and freshwater wildlife like manatees and bull trout will pay the price.
The Center for Biological Diversity will challenge this move, and we need you with us. Please give today to the Wildlife and Wild Places Fund, and your gift will be doubled.
Trump's U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to issue nationwide permits for oil and gas development, pipeline construction, coal mining, and other development in the waters of the United States.
It would allow pipelines many hundreds and even thousands of miles long to cross waterways and to poison wildlife. But pipelines are just one example of the many harmful activities these permits allow.
This would be a disaster for aquatic ecosystems and wildlife. It would lead to more habitat destruction in the nation's rivers, wetlands, and coasts.
Imperiled species like manatees — who for years faced starvation because of polluted water — and whooping cranes, who depend on waterways to survive migrations, would be pushed further to the brink.
This giveaway to industry is yet another example of the ecologically bankrupt administration sacrificing wild places that belong to all of us.
To stop the extinction crisis, places that species depend on must be protected. Instead, public lands and fragile wetlands are getting blank checks for destruction without required environmental reviews — and in violation of the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act.
The Center is pushing back against this dangerous action. We've sued to stop nationwide permits before — and we'll continue our fight to prevent the exploitation of the natural world.
Because threats to public lands and wildlife are ongoing, we need you for the long haul. Please start a monthly donation to sustain our defense.
For the wild,
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