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Yellowstone, America’s first National Park, is one of our most beloved national treasures. Its sweeping grandeur encompasses dramatic canyons, alpine rivers, lush forests, hot springs, gushing geysers, and an abundance of wildlife. To many, the most iconic of all Yellowstone’s animals is the mighty grizzly bear. But today, these bears are under attack. Help save Yellowstone’s grizzly bears -- rush a $10 donation to Friends of the Earth.
Grizzlies are an irreplaceable resident of America’s wild places -- integral to Yellowstone and the surrounding lands for thousands of years. To many, these mighty mammals represent America’s rugged wilderness, embodied.
A top predator, grizzlies play a pivotal role in keeping our ecosystem healthy and in balance. Standing up to eight feet tall and weighing in at up to 800 pounds, these intelligent omnivores enhance biodiversity, enrich soils, regulate prey populations, and transport nutrients through different ecosystems as they roam far and wide. Scientists are continuously discovering more and more ways grizzlies play a pivotal role in the ecosystems they inhabit.
Today, faced with shrinking habitat, the loss of critical food sources, and many impacts of climate change, grizzly bears are struggling to survive. Their populations outside Alaska have plummeted to a mere 2% of their historic population, and are restricted to only 1% of their historic range. Fewer and fewer cubs are surviving to reach adulthood, and adult bears are dying more quickly because of rapid changes -- from a shifting food supply, to being forced to hibernate later and later in the fall. Fewer than 2,000 grizzlies remain in the lower 48 states -- and about 700 of those call the Greater Yellowstone area home.
This month, Congress is pushing a bill that would remove Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears, including the grizzlies of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, from protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) -- a move that threatens decades of progress and puts these animals at risk.
We need to act fast to keep grizzlies protected under the Endangered Species Act. Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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The new proposed bill to delist Yellowstone’s grizzlies threatens the tenuous recovery of these bears, and goes against everything we believe in. If passed, the move would allow Yellowstone’s endangered grizzlies to be killed by trophy hunters. It would also strip away many other key protections for this bear, and open their habitats up to destruction from extractive industries.
They’ve tried this before: In 2007, the bears were delisted, but were placed back on the Endangered Species List in 2009. In 2017, The Department of Interior illegally delisted Yellowstone’s grizzlies to allow for trophy hunts. Fortunately that decision was overturned, and we’ve been fighting to keep it that way -- but today, Yellowstone’s grizzlies are in the crosshairs once again.
We can’t let Congress delist Yellowstone’s iconic grizzlies. Support Friends of the Earth with a $10 donation today.
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This bill is part of a larger, carefully coordinated attack on the Endangered Species Act and public lands, spearheaded by oil, logging and mining companies. It’s no secret: Their plan is to permanently open our public lands for drilling, logging, and mining that would destroy already fragile wildlife habitats without repercussion.
Endangered Species laws provide critical and needed protection for America’s iconic animal species. They are also some of our most effective safeguards in the fight to protect our public lands and curb catastrophic climate change.
Climate change is already pushing multiple species, from corals to bears, to the brink of extinction. For the sake of our wildlife, for the sake of our planet, we can’t let oil, logging, and mining companies and their cronies in Congress destroy our public lands and wipe out our endangered species.
Friends of the Earth is built to fight back in moments like these -- and thanks to support from members like you, we continue to win critical protections for our public lands and wildlife.
- We ousted Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke, the corrupt officials who were selling off our public lands.
- We are leading the charge in opposing oil and gas lease sales on public lands, and delivering hundreds of thousands of comments to pressure decision-makers.
- We are working with Congress to pass bills to safeguard America’s special places and the species that live on them.
At Friends of the Earth, we are using every tool available to protect endangered species -- not destructive industries' profits. We know how to fight and win, and that’s exactly what we plan to do. Today, we are asking you to stand with us as we continue this work -- together.
Help save endangered species like Yellowstone’s grizzly bears.
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Thank you,
Ariel Moger,
Legislative and political coordinator,
Friends of the Earth
