To: The United States Senate
Polar Bear Trophies
Vote "No" on the Sportsmen's Act. The EPA can and should address the preventable deaths to eagles and condors caused by exposure to lead shot. Also support the trophy import ban on the 41 polar bear carcasses from Canada covered in this bill.
Why is this important?
The Sportsmen Act would allow 41 US hunters to bring home polar bear carcasses that are trapped in Canada because of a ban on trophy imports, while polar bears are threatened with extinction as the arctic ice cap melts. This bill will also ban the EPA from regulating lead ammo and tackle, while eagles, condors and 75 species of birds are needlessly poisoned by lead left in the wild.