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[[link removed]]As bears enter their dens for hibernation this winter, they have no idea it could be their last. When spring comes, blooming flowers could be splattered by the blood of mama
bears being gunned down while looking for food to provide for their babies --
leaving cubs orphaned and alone. Friend, we can’t leave these helpless cubs to fend for
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Trophy hunters are tracking down and targeting bears across the U.S., putting
them more at risk each day. Mama bears are being torn apart by bullets, leaving
their babies to starve, freeze, or fall prey to other species. But private
interests are working to remove grizzly bear protections so they can kill more
bears and take over the lands they call home -- all to turn a profit.

Now, fewer than 2,000 grizzlies remain in the lower 48 states -- and trophy hunters show no sign of stopping the slaughter. We can’t stand by
and watch while they chip away at protections for grizzlies, opening up the
lands they call home for the sake of mining, logging, and other devastating
implications for the environment.

Don’t let any more baby bears lose their mamas to ruthless trophy hunting:
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[[link removed]]At their peak, grizzlies in the continental U.S. numbered at 50,000! But by
1975, reckless human activity, like hunting, trapping, and habitat loss, decimated their numbers -- prompting their Endangered Species Act protection.

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. 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.

Now, states in the northern Rockies are working to remove ESA protections for
threatened grizzly bears.

Stripping grizzlies of their ESA protections would be devastating -- earlier
this year, Idaho Fish and Game found a female grizzly with 12 BULLETS in her. She was shot an estimated 40 TIMES. This is the level of ferocity grizzly bears are facing without strengthened ESA
protections.

Black bears are already facing the horrors that could await grizzlies if private
interests succeed. Trophy hunters wait until they leave the safety of their dens
to trap them with painful metal clamps or release hunting dogs to track and terrorize bears before they are murdered. No animal deserves this brutal fate.

Act now to preserve and strengthen ESA protections for grizzlies before it’s too
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[[link removed]]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.

Endangered species laws provide critical 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.

For the sake of our wildlife and for the sake of our planet, we can’t let Big
Polluters and their cronies in Congress destroy our public lands and wipe out
our endangered species.

Your membership support to Friends of the Earth today will allow us to take a
stand against private interests who want to hunt down vulnerable species like
bears, wreak havoc on their environments, and are contributing to ecological
destruction.

The inhumane treatment of bears and their cubs cannot continue. One bullet will
not only kill mother bears, but the slaughter means that her cubs will be left
to die as well. Please, Friend, help us put a stop to the
deaths of America’s most iconic species.

Friend, help save grizzlies from an unimaginable fate.
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[[link removed]]Standing with you,
Raena Garcia
Fossil fuel and lands campaigner,
Friends of the Earth

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