Trump stripped protections for wolves
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Dear Peter,
Protect gray wolves and endangered species from extinction.
The Trump administration just stripped Endangered Species Act protections from nearly every wolf in the lower 48 states. What’s at stake now is nothing less than their survival. We are doing everything we can to protect endangered species like wolves from extinction. Please make an emergency contribution now to Friends of the Earth Action.
Gray wolf recovery was on track to becoming a great American conservation success story -- until now. Once prominent throughout the country, gray wolves have been hunted, trapped, and poisoned. Wolves today occupy less than 10% of their historic range.
Now, without these critical ESA protections, they’re at risk of being slaughtered by trophy hunting, trapping, snaring, and being gunned down from helicopters. Some states have even implemented laws requiring trophy hunting of wolves, and proposed taxpayer-funded “wolf killing budgets.”
Four decades of painstaking, tenuous recovery is about to be undone, in a way that will do irreversible damage to wolves, to ecosystems, and to America’s wild places -- unless we act fast to stop this.
Protect gray wolves and endangered species from extinction. Donate $27 or more to Friends of The Earth Action today.
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Wolves are what’s referred to as a “keystone species”, which is any species that other plants and animals within an ecosystem largely depend on. If a keystone species is removed, the ecosystem drastically changes. In some cases, it may collapse.
Wolves are majestic, family-oriented animals. They help keep deer and elk populations in check, which in turn benefits many other species. Wolves also help redistribute nutrients and provide food for other wildlife species, like grizzly bears and scavengers. Scientists are still uncovering all the positive effects that wolves have on ecosystems.
These animals are a cherished part of our natural heritage, an icon of wilderness, and an irreplaceable player in ensuring that our ecosystems are healthy and diverse.
We need to act fast to keep wolves protected under the Endangered Species Act. Donate $27 or more to Friends of the Earth Action today.
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This attack on wolves is part of a larger, systemic dismantling of our Endangered Species Act, conservation laws, and public lands, spearheaded by the oil, logging and mining companies and their buddies in the Trump administration. It’s no secret: Their plan is to clear the way to open our public lands for polluting industries to destroy fragile wildlife habitats without repercussion.
Endangered species protections are some of our most effective safeguards in the fight to protect our public lands from the fossil fuel industry and curb catastrophic climate change.
Friends of the Earth Action is built to fight back in moments like these -- and thanks to support from members like you, we continue to win critical protections for our public lands and wildlife.
We are opposing oil and gas lease sales on public lands, and delivering hundreds of thousands of comments to pressure decision-makers.
We are working with Congress to pass bills to safeguard America’s special places and all of the species that live on them.
At Friends of the Earth Action, we are using every tool available to protect endangered species -- not corporate profits. We refuse to stand by and allow these animals to be killed, one by one. But we need you with us, Peter.
Stand with wolves and endangered species. Rush a $27 or more donation to Friends of the Earth Action today.
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Standing with you,
Ariel Moger,
Legislative and political coordinator,
Friends of the Earth Action
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