Don't Let Congress Gut The Endangered Species Act

Anti-environment members of Congress have already introduced legislative attacks that would undermine the Endangered Species Act, threatening the survival of sage grouse, grizzly bears, gray wolves, polar bears, beluga whales and countless other imperiled wildlife and ecosystems. And it sets a dangerous precedent of letting politics, not science, determine the fate of our planet's most vulnerable creatures.

We can't let this fundamental environmental law be decimated by lawmakers and their big polluter allies. Tell your senators and representative to stand up for the Endangered Species Act and oppose any legislation that will further jeopardize our nation's wildlife and wildlands.

Tell your lawmakers to stand up for the Endangered Species Act and oppose any legislation that threatens our nation's wildlife and wildlands.

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Dear Senator or Representative:

I am one of the 4 in 5 Americans who support the Endangered Species Act and do not want to see it destroyed. I am outraged that Congress continues to propose legislation that would put our most vulnerable wildlife and wildlands in even greater danger. Please oppose any legislation -- including Senator Barrasso’s draft legislation and the Congressional Western Caucus’s package of nine bills -- that would chip away at the Endangered Species Act, our nation’s most effective law for protecting wildlife from extinction. These proposals would make it harder to list species and easier to delist them, restrict citizens’ access to courts, allow listing decisions to be made based on factors other than the best available science, and take decision making authority regarding imperiled species away from the people with the most knowledge and resources.

The ESA has prevented 99% of protected species from going extinct, and has helped save iconic species like the bald eagle, the American alligator and the California condor. Undermining the ESA will cause irreparable harm to wildlife and permanently alter our ecosystem. It will also set a dangerous precedent of Congress inserting itself into decisions that should be based on science -- not politics -- and leaving endangered wildlife to suffer the consequences.

Destructive proposals under consideration in Congress attack the very qualities that have been critical to the ESA’s enduring success: science-based decision-making and citizen engagement. Please do your part to help save our country's most imperiled wildlife and wild places by opposing these and any efforts by Congress to dismantle the Endangered Species Act. Thank you.

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