Take Action: Tell the Bush Administration to protect endangered wildlife!

Tell the Bush Administration to protect endangered wildlife!

The Interior Department has announced a plan that would dramatically undercut the Endangered Species Act -- our nation's safety net for animals and plants on the brink of extinction. If finalized, the plan would allow government agencies with no formal wildlife expertise to decide the fate of imperiled species like the polar bear, the gray wolf and whales. Even worse, those agencies may have a pro-polluter or pro-development agenda that is directly at odds with the well-being of wildlife.

Tell the Bush Administration to protect endangered wildlife!

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Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, Dept. of the Interior

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Dear Secretary Kempthorne,

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I strongly oppose your recently announced plan to weaken protections for threatened and endangered wildlife. The Endangered Species Act is our nation's strongest law for protecting wildlife. Its purpose is to ensure that imperiled plants and animals never reach extinction while protecting the habitat on which they depend. This simply won't be possible with the reduced protections outlined in your new plan.

Wildlife protection should be carried out by trained wildlife professionals.  But your proposed plan would transfer that responsibility to agencies with no such knowledge or expertise.  Furthermore, some agencies' interests could be directly at odds with the well-being of endangered species. By eliminating or reducing the consultation processes long embedded in the law, the proposed plan removes essential safeguards, including independent scientific review. In essence, the plan replaces science with politics.

Environmental protection is a top concern for most Americans.  As such, our government should be doing more, not less, to protect endangered wildlife and their habitat. I urge you not to formalize these proposed plans, which would weaken the Endangered Species Act.

Thank you.

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