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Hi John,
More than 600 Florida manatees perished in 2025 — an increase of more than 50 over the previous year. So far more than 30 have died this year, with record-setting cold now stunning the region and pushing them into warm-water refuges.
If the Trump administration gets its way in tearing down the Endangered Species Act, manatees' habitat will become even more polluted. Every species on the brink of extinction will be put at higher risk.
The Center for Biological Diversity just went to court to hold the line for the Act and the species depending on it.
Please stand with us by giving now to the Future for the Wild Fund.
The Endangered Species Act is the world's most successful conservation law. It saves 99% of the species given its protection.
But Trump and his big business backers want to change the way habitat is protected by the Act.
These changes attempt to give industry a pass to destroy precious critical habitat. They'll also delay protection decisions, forcing species that aren't yet protected — like California spotted owls — to wait longer for lifesaving federal safeguards. And they'll likely ensure that some species never get safeguards at all.
The Act is immensely popular. The public doesn't want to see species go extinct, and it doesn't want the Act weakened beyond recognition.
That's why the Trump administration made its plans to gut the Act in secret. We took legal action to expose the inner workings of the Interior Department and agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — and new documents reveal that career staff were shut out of the decision to gut habitat protections. It's clear these changes are motivated by politics, not science.
We won't stop fighting for species like manatees, Florida panthers, wolverines, and hundreds of others.
To do that we must keep their habitat safe from destruction — and we need the Act at full strength to do it.
Species on the brink are counting on us — we have to act now.
Because threats to wildlife and public lands 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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