Tell Zinke: Hands Off the Endangered Species Act
In the latest assault on the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed radical changes that would gut the law, driving imperiled animals and plants closer to extinction.
The changes would weaken protections for hundreds of endangered animals and plants and the places they live, putting polar bears, borderlands jaguars and other species in even deeper peril than they already face. And hundreds of other species waiting for the Act's protection — like monarch butterflies — would face existence-threatening delays or be denied safeguards altogether.
Please: Take a moment now to speak up for vulnerable plants and animals. Tell the Interior Department to immediately withdraw its disastrous proposals.
Save
the Endangered Species Act. In
July, Republicans in Congress introduced a series of bills intended to gut the
Endangered Species Act (ESA). These bills are the latest of over 300 legislative
attacks directed at the ESA since 2011. These legislative attacks are coming at
a time when, unfortunately, the Interior Department itself is proposing drastic
changes to the ESA, including provisions that would make developing of
infrastructure such as pipelines easier in key wildlife habitat. We can't let
this happen! TAKE
ACTION
It's a one-two punch that packs deadly intent. First, Republicans in Congress snuck riders that would harm the Endangered Species Act into must-pass bills. Now, the Interior Department, led by Trump-appointed Ryan Zinke, has proposed radical changes that would gut the Act and drive imperiled animals and plants closer to extinction.
Together these actions represent the worst onslaught the Act has ever faced.
The Interior Department's proposed changes would weaken protections for hundreds of endangered animals and plants and the places they live, putting polar bears, borderlands jaguars and other species in even deeper peril than they already face.
The proposed changes would also mean that hundreds of other at-risk species waiting to be granted protection under the Act — like the monarch butterfly — would face existence-threatening delays or be denied the safeguards they deserve.
Will you speak up for wildlife? Tell the Interior Department to immediately withdraw its disastrous proposals.
During
the past year and a half, the Trump administration and Congress have launched
over a hundred attacks on the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the bedrock law that
protects imperiled animal species and their habitats.
On
July 19, the Trump administration dealt the latest body blow to the ESA and
vulnerable wildlife by proposing the biggest rollback to the law by any
administration in decades. The proposed changes would weaken the ESA regulations
by making it harder to secure federal protections for endangered and threatened
species, while also making it easier to remove species from the protections of
the ESA. These species—bald eagle, grizzly bear, and southern sea otter—are here
today due to the protections of the ESA. The Humane Society Legislative Fund is
at the forefront of this battle, but we need your help. Please support our work
by voicing your opposition to this proposed rule.
Here
is a sample comment:
The
proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act regulations by U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service would weaken the ESA
regulations by making it harder to secure and maintain federal protections for
imperiled species. The FWS and NMFS should keep the existing ESA protections to
save threatened and endangered animals from extinction.
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note that the comment page can become overloaded if too many people try to visit
it at the same time. If the page will not load the first time you try to visit,
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The
ESA is essential to the protection of animals, and we’re doing our best to turn
back threats to its integrity and efficacy. And so can you.
The
animals came from Hollywild Animal Park, an exhibitor that was cited for failing
to provide animals with adequate veterinary care.
The Islamabad Zoo Has a Horrible History of Animal Cruelty and Negligence. Demand Better Treatment for These Animals.
Earlier this month, a wolf got into the deer enclosure at the Islamabad Zoo. The predator attacked the herd, and killed five helpless deer. A staff member at the zoo was forced to take matters into their own hands and shoot the wolf dead to stop it from hurting any more deer.
Sadly, this not the first time that animals have been mistreated at the Islamabad Zoo.
Visitors have repeatedly reported that animals look lethargic, and many suffer from untreated injuries. Poor animals can be seen weaving back and forth in their enclosures — a tell-tale sign of "zoochosis," a mental illness for animals in captivity.
We must come together as an international community to stand up for these animals. Let's start by getting proper animal welfare laws for animals in captivity in Pakistan.
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Earlier this year we asked you to oppose an inhumane proposal that increased slaughter speeds for pigs. Now new evidence has emerged of lines running so fast that pigs being are butchered while still conscious. We need your help again to stop the USDA from finalizing this rule. |
Call
Out Judge Who Failed to Deliver Justice to Habitual Animal
Abuser. Three-time
animal abuser Charoyd Henrence Bell is infamous for his horrific acts of animal
cruelty. Bell was found guilty of fighting dogs who had been stolen from their
family homes and mutilated, but Mississippi Sixth District Judge Lillie Blackmon
Sanders gave him just 14 months jail time. Tell this judge that animal abusers
like Bell must be punished to the fullest extent of the law! TAKE
ACTION
Wild
Horse Foals Run to Death by BLM Helicopters! The
Bureau of Land Management is murdering young foals and older horses in its
terrifying helicopter roundups in the West. Terror-stricken wild horses are
"accidentally" chased into barbed wire fences and young foals are literally run
to death. We must demand that our legislators put a stop to this! TAKE
ACTION
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Revelator: The Lion-bone
Trade
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As if Trump letting trophy-hunters import
dead lions weren't stomach-turning enough, there's something else just as
disturbing going on behind the scenes.
As The Revelator reports,
South Africa has 200-plus "lion farms" that raise the big cats to be shot by
gun-toting tourists. The lions' heads and skins become hunters' "trophies,"
while their skeletons are legally exported to Asia, where the bones are ground
down to be used as "medicine" or as a wine component. How will this trade impact
lions in the wild? Get the grisly
details.
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Brews
for Bears: A Nationwide Call to Halt the Griz Hunt
Bear lovers nationwide this week turned up the
heat on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, calling for more protections for
Yellowstone's grizzlies — and to stop hunts planned next month in Wyoming and
Idaho.
A huge thanks to those who showed up to more than 40 events on
Tuesday as part of "Brews for Bears," a national day of action organized by the
Center's Ignite Change. We're working to stop grizzly trophy hunting this fall
for more than 20 bears that wander out of Yellowstone National
Park.
We're also putting up billboards opposing the hunt and will have
activists in Yellowstone later this month urging visitors to get
involved.
Learn
more.
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Win for Oregon's Plush-furred Humboldt
Martens
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Following a petition by the Center and
allies, Oregon's wildlife agency must draft rules to safeguard the state's
remaining Humboldt martens from trapping. Only about 200 of these forest
carnivores survive in the state.
Humboldt martens are under review for
federal and state Endangered Species Act protections, but until now
Oregon allowed trapping for their gorgeous fur.
"We're so glad Oregon's
tiny, fragile Humboldt marten populations will be protected from trapping," said
the Center's Noah Greenwald. Read
more.
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Suit
Launched Over Pesticides in National Wildlife Refuges
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has
abruptly reversed a ban on the use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and
genetically modified, pesticide-resistant crops on national wildlife
refuges.
The decision was made without assessing potential harm to
protected species that live in refuges. That assessment is required by the
Endangered Species Act — so the Center and allies filed a notice of intent to
sue Wednesday.
"It's shameful that the Trump administration is promoting
greater use of highly toxic agricultural pesticides on wildlife refuges," said
the Center's Hannah Connor. "These special places were set aside to protect
America's wildlife, not to protect agriculture practices that rely on dangerous
pesticides known to harm animals."
Read more in our press release.
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Please join me for Mercy For Animals’ fourth annual Hidden
Heroes Gala! With an amazing celebrity honorary committee and some of the
best and brightest animal advocates in attendance, the gala is a celebration of
our courageous undercover investigators and those who support their work.
Held at the historic Vibiana
in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, September 15, 2018, this life-changing
black-tie event will inspire you. You will enjoy an outdoor reception, a gourmet
vegan dinner, a star-studded awards show, and an amazing after-party under the
stars!
You will also have the opportunity to mix and mingle with MFA
staff, former investigators, and celebrity guests, including Moby, Carrie Ann
Inaba, Joaquin Phoenix, and Evanna Lynch.
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Your support of the Hidden Heroes Gala will help us
secure the future success of MFA’s work, empowering us to help more farmed
animals across the United States and around the world.
Last year’s gala
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