  VOTE FOR WILDLIFE In fourteen days, Americans will elect the next president and decide control of the U.S. Congress. It simply couldn’t be more important that you vote. If you have not already voted, please find your polling place or request a ballot where available at endangered.turbovote.org. The future of hundreds of species could be decided by the results of this election.Gray wolves are on the precipice of losing *ALL* Endangered Species Act protections from coast-to-coast.Southern Resident orcas have been ignored–left to starve–absent action to save them and the salmon they rely upon.Wolverines–one of the country’s most snow-reliant species–were just denied protections by this administration in spite of the mounting threats they face from climate change, habitat loss, and trapping.The Endangered Species Act itself has been the target of numerous “revisions” from this administration and is a frequent target of members of Congress. The administration has gone so far as to propose that economic considerations be the deciding factor in determining whether to protect habitat that imperiled species need to survive.Your voice matters, and it is vital that you use it this election. If you have not voted, please go to endangered.turbovote.org to request a ballot where available or to find your polling place. If you have voted, please remind three friends to vote. This may sound like a simple act (and it is!) but research has demonstrated that reminders from friends or family can increase the likelihood that a person will vote. Sign up for a reminder and we will send you an email (or text if you prefer) to make sure that you ask those friends to vote. This election will decide history. Please do everything that you can to be a part of it. Vote. Remind your friends to vote. Be wary of disinformation or attempts to dissuade voting. Endangered plants, animals, and all of us are depending on you.Thank you for your commitment to wildlife and wild places. Sincerely,  |
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Petition: Tell the Trump Administration and Biden Campaign to prioritize endangered orca and salmon
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 TAKE ACTION Do you remember Tahlequah, the orca who gained world-wide attention after carrying her dead calf for 17 days and over 1,000 miles? She recently gave birth to a healthy boy. Write to the Trump administration and Joe Biden’s campaign to demand that the next administration prioritize the health of the Tahlequah’s calf and fellow pod-members. Tahlequah, a member of the Southern Resident orcas, grieved her lost child in the summer of 2018 by carrying her over 1,000 miles for more than two weeks,1 creating world-wide empathy for the plight of the Southern Resident orcas. Her son, the 73rd individual in the endangered population, was followed with another new calf birth just days later, bringing the current population to 74.2 For millions of animal lovers and conservationists who are wonderstruck by the Southern Resident orcas–one of the most iconic species in the Northwest–two live births are a ray of sunshine in a dark year.But the Southern Residents are being poisoned by toxics and starved from lack of Chinook salmon. These young orca calves are not out of the woods yet, and it will take quick and decisive action to save them and the rest of the Southern Resident Orca population. Tell Joe Biden’s campaign and the Trump Administration that the next administration must save salmon and the Southern Resident orcas from extinction. The lower Snake River has historically produced half of the Chinook salmon in the Columbia Basin, which is one of the most important food producers for Southern Resident Orcas.3 That means restoring the lower Snake River is our best chance to increase salmon numbers and save the Southern Resident Orcas. To restore the lower Snake River, four dams need to be breached. But the federal government has done next to nothing for over twenty years. This is why it is critical that across the country, we tell the next administration that saving orcas and salmon must be a priority. Let Biden’s campaign and the Trump Administration know that protecting salmon and orcas is a national issue that the next administration must address. The Southern Residents and the salmon they rely on are part of Northwest culture: tribal nations’ rituals are based on orcas and salmon and there are dozens of murals of orcas in Seattle; They are part of our economy: tribal nations rely on salmon for sustenance, along with fishing fleets. They are part of our ecology: two symbolic species that have remarkable life stores. Don’t take my word for it – read a recent blog post by Elliott Moffet, President of Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, to understand what these animals mean to tribal nations.Thank you for your commitment to wildlife and wild places. Sincerely, Chris Connolly Pacific Northwest Representative Endangered Species Coalition1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-jpvT7cIzc2. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/another-new-orca-baby-born-to-j-pod-the-second-this-month/3. https://www.wildsalmon.org/images/factsheets-and-reports/2015-OSA-Orca-Chinook-Fact-Sheet.pdf |
Save the Endangered Species Act!
 TAKE ACTIONRobert,Interior Secretary Bernhardt and his Trump Administration colleagues have undertaken yet another attempt to weaken the protections of the Endangered Species Act.Submit your comment opposing the latest Trump Administration assault on science and the law. The comment period ends in two days.The Round Two attacks on the Endangered Species Act by the administration seek to redefine the word “habitat” that would radically limit the ability of conservationists to protect land that enables the recovery of imperiled species.The Trump Administration’s proposed habitat definition is a departure from every administration that preceded it during the highly-successful tenure of the Endangered Species Act. It would require that habitats have an undefined number of necessary elements that support wildlife. This could allow this–or future–administration to deny habitat protections based on an arbitrary finding that the forest, river, or other space was somehow lacking.The administration is even seeking to limit protections to currently-occupied land or waters. Meaning that forests and other wild areas that could support highly-endangered species can be developed or destroyed if the species has yet to recover sufficiently to expand to that space. For example, if a species must move to a higher elevation due to a warming climate, that habitat will not be protected under these new regulations. This would clearly limit the ability of those species to recover.Please send your comment in opposition to this new definition of critical habitat and the further weakening of the Endangered Species Act.This is nothing more than another attempt by the Trump Administration to open up more and more of our country to oil, gas, logging, and other extractive and destructive development. Habitat decisions should be based on science. They should factor in current and future needs and capacity. This proposal does neither.Please join us in speaking out against the Trump Administration’s latest attack on our country’s most successful conservation law–the Endangered Species Act.Thank you for your commitment to wildlife and wild places.Sincerely,Leda HutaExecutive Director Endangered Species Coalition For those of you who are over 60, drunk or retarded: Facebook If not: | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram | Medium PS. Links not working? Please submit your comment at this URL: https://act.endangered.org/JyH9Pbd |
Petition: this 11 year old girl wants to ban ivory trade in the US.
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| Help stop the domestic trade of ivory in the United States of America. You may believe that this only affects elephants, but that would be so wrong. It also affects walruses, hippopotamuses, killer whales, narwhals, sperm whales, and wart hogs. By killing just one, you are throwing back their population by a couple of years. But it is not like we are just killing one.
There is research that says that approximately 96 elephants per day in Africa are being killed for their ivory. More elephants are being killed than are being born. We are not just stunting these populations, but also sometimes killing the newborns. The number of orphaned elephants has grown drastically. It is hard for orphaned elephants to live because they are fully dependent on their mothers’ milk for the first two years of life. Because of this, most baby elephants can’t live in the wild after their mothers are killed. Imagine that you were taken away against your will from your kid, knowing that they don’t have the right resources to live. How would you feel? Please help the elephants so that no elephant mother has to feel that way. Thank you, |
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Add Your Name: Protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction. Only around 400 remain.
We know you care about the threats facing our oceans, and right now highly endangered whales need your help.
North Atlantic right whales are on the verge of extinction. In the past three years, 30 right whales have died in U.S. and Canadian waters – that’s roughly 7% of their population. If we continue losing whales at this rate, extinction is inevitable.
We know what’s killing these whales. Entanglement in fishing gear – about 83% of all right whales have been entangled at least once – and collisions with ships are the leading causes of death. Once a whale becomes entangled, the ropes can cut deeply into their flesh, rendering them unable to swim, reproduce and feed and often leading to life-threatening infections. As ships collide with North Atlantic right whales, blunt force trauma and cuts from propellers can lead to excruciating deaths.
That’s why we’ve launched a binational campaign calling on the U.S. and Canadian governments to take immediate actions to stop the killing and save these whales from extinction. But we can’t win this fight for whales without YOU. If you won’t speak up for North Atlantic right whales, who will?
Only about 400 right whales remain and fewer than 100 are females of breeding age. To make a dire situation worse, 10 North Atlantic right whales died this past summer. Even a single whale lost in a given year is too much.
It’s going to take a binational approach from both the U.S. and Canadian governments to save North Atlantic right whales – and Oceana is well suited to meet this challenge. North Atlantic right whales migration route includes critical habitat that extends through both U.S. and Canadian waters, from their calving grounds off the coast of the Southeastern U.S. to their feeding grounds in Canadian waters.
Oceana is calling on the U.S. and Canadian governments to take immediate actions to save these whales from extinction, including:
- Reduce the amount of vertical lines from fishing gear in in U.S. and Canadian Atlantic waters.
- Modify fishing gear and practices to reduce the likelihood and severity of entanglements.
- Require ships to slow down where right whales are known to frequent.
If we don’t act fast, we could see a large whale species go extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in centuries. Their survival depends on all of us standing together and making our voices heard.
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For the oceans,
Whitney Webber Campaign Director Oceana |
P.S. Please forward my email to your friends and family who may also want to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction.
Humans have killed 60 percent of world’s wildlife since 1970, World Wildlife Fund says. That’s a chunk of wildlife.
Group of wild elephants looking for banana trees in the middle of dumping ground (Sri Lanka, Trincomalee)
No one can argue that humans aren’t the dominant species — for better or worse.
World Wildlife Fund released an alarming report Tuesday asserting that humans are directly responsible for killing off an average of 60 percent of the world’s mammals, fish, birds and reptiles — in just over 40 years.
“Earth is losing biodiversity at a rate seen only during mass extinctions,” say WWF’s Living Planet Report authors.
The WWF collected data on more than 4,000 species globally between 1970 and 2014. The take-away: Humanity’s insatiable appetite for Earth’s natural resources — energy, land, water — and a growing food-production industry, is leading to “over-exploitation.”
The WWF urges global leaders to join forces to, well, save the planet.
“Decision makers at every level need to make the right political, financial and consumer choices to achieve the vision that humanity and nature thrive in harmony on our only planet.”
They better move fast: Researchers estimate that only one-tenth of the world’s land mass has been spared from human consumption. South and Central America have suffered the greatest impact, with some 89 percent of their vertebrate species lost.
The Recovery Through Wholeness Chalkboard 