To: Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Department of Interior, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Abandon reckless attacks on the Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act is one the most successful conservation tools in the world with a 99% track record at its job of preventing extinction. Both Congress and Ryan Zinke–Trump's Interior Secretary–have unveiled attacks on the Act in recent days.
Tell Congress and Ryan Zinke to abandon these misguided proposals that would put endangered species at risk.
Why is this important?
The Endangered Species Act has saved some of our nation's most iconic species from vanishing into extinction. Bald eagles, humpback whales and California condors are here today because of the protections of this groundbreaking and popular law.
Despite the Endangered Species Act's 99 percent track record and historically bipartisan support, some Republicans in Congress and Ryan Zinke's Department of Interior are waging a coordinated attack on this law and the species it protects.
Congress is considering nearly a dozen proposals that target the Endangered Species Act. Among them are bills that would either block or remove protections from species including sage grouse (a bird that relies on habitat sought by the oil and gas industries) and all of the gray wolves in the lower 48 states.
Ryan Zinke, Trump's Secretary of the Interior, unveiled his plans to overhaul the Endangered Species Act recently. The Trump/Zinke plan would reduce the protected habitat set aside for endangered species and make protecting yet-to-be-listed species more difficult.
If these proposed changes are successful, endangered plants, fish, and wildlife–and the places they call home–will suffer. Please speak out and tell Congress, Ryan Zinke, and their cronies that the Endangered Species Act is wildly successful and does not need their "modernization" or overhaul.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/climate/endangered-species-act-trump-administration.html