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Hi John,
More than 45 U.S. species have winked out forever waiting for Endangered Species Act protection.
And now western populations of gray wolves, alligator snapping turtles, cactus ferruginous pygmy owls, Miami tiger beetles and nearly 400 others are hovering in limbo. They have no time left to lose.
This Giving Tuesday, help strengthen our fight to save all species great and small. Your gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund will be matched dollar for dollar.
Dozens of species waiting for protection under the Endangered Species Act were due decisions from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this year but didn't get them.
This is not new — the system for making these life-or-death decisions is badly broken. Politics is steamrolling science.
The Act requires decisions on endangered species protections to be completed within two years. And yet, on average, species wait for nine years.
In 2016 the Fish and Wildlife Service rightly created a plan to address the waitlist. But in every year since, it has continued to miss its own deadlines — leaving wildlife in a dangerous purgatory where some of them go extinct.
And while the Service did protect 45 species this past year, all but one of those decisions were driven by Center for Biological Diversity legal actions.
The extinction crisis calls us to fight for each and every species. That's why the Saving Life on Earth Fund was created — and why your support is critical.
The Center has secured Endangered Species Act protection for more than 740 species and more than half a billion acres of critical habitat.
But 1 million species are on track to go extinct in the coming decades.
With each loss the wild world slips farther into the past.
No other group has our track record of fighting extinction. Make your Giving Tuesday gift now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund to have it matched.
For the wild,
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