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Hi John,
Today is our day in court to block construction of the Rosemont Mine — and to fight for jaguars like El Jefe, who was caught on video a few years ago prowling through Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains.
The mine would create a mile-wide, half-mile-deep open pit that would suck the area dry of life-giving water and destroy the habitat of jaguars and other rare and vanishing wildlife.
Please give today to the Wildlife and Wild Places Defense Fund as the Center goes toe-to-toe with a large corporation to fight this mine.
Nearly 4,000 acres of public land would be destroyed by the mine's waste dumps, open pit, processing plant and infrastructure, leaving a permanent scar and environmental hazard on public land.
Construction could begin in just a few weeks, which is why we rushed to court. Today our lawyers are asking for an injunction to stop the bulldozers in their tracks.
The Santa Rita Mountains are among the most biodiverse areas in the United States, and there's clear evidence they once supported a breeding jaguar population north of the border.
The Rosemont mine would reverse the natural direction of groundwater flow and dry up dozens of springs and streams, ruining the homes of endangered fish, frogs and many other species.
For years the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the mine should be denied, but the Trump administration issued a permit anyway. The flip-flop was driven by politics and greed — a giveaway to industry at the expense of wild creatures and nature.
The Center's been fighting for more than 10 years to stop Rosemont and save jaguars, and we won't let up.
In 2014 we secured 750,000 acres of federally protected critical habitat for jaguars in Arizona and New Mexico.
In 2017 we sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision to overrule its own scientists and allow the mine to wreck thousands of acres of prime habitat.
Our fight today is a critical step in preventing this mine from wreaking havoc. We can win, but we need you with us.
Please give now to our Wildlife and Wild Places Defense Fund so we can keep fighting to save El Jefe, jaguars and other desert wildlife.
For the wild,
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