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To: U.S. Congress

Take Action to Ban Wildlife Trade!

Center for Biological Diversity

We must put an end to the commercial exploitation of wildlife now.

In the past 40 years, the worst human pandemics and epidemics — HIV, SARS, avian flu, swine flu, Ebola and Zika — all stemmed from trading and consuming animals and destroying their habitat.

The solution couldn’t be clearer: ban wildlife trade to reduce disease risk and save animals from overexploitation. Tell the U.S. Congress to ban the trade of wildlife.

Why is this important?

The United States is one of the world’s top importers of wildlife, representing an estimated 20% of the global wildlife market. By capturing, trading and slaughtering wildlife, humans are spreading disease and driving species like pangolins toward extinction. It has to stop now.

Wildlife should never be commodities, especially when the trade puts species at risk of extinction and us at risk of disease outbreaks.

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2020-04-17 16:30:32 -0400

If we’re going to halt the wildlife extinction crisis, we have to protect the places where these animals and plants live.

Join us on Earth Day — this Wednesday — for a special discussion about our ambitious goal of protecting 30% of wildlands and waters by 2030 and half of them by 2050. The presentation will include the Center’s Executive Director Kierán Suckling and our Public Lands Director Randi Spivak.

The conversation will be Wednesday at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern. Sign up here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5515869037558/WN_pFtMwDAESVS-2JPkeJG5MQ

This conversation will dive into the value of our public lands and waters, the importance of thinking big, and what it will take to ensure wild animals and plants have long-term protection for the places they call home.

Sign up here for Wednesday’s conversation: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5515869037558/WN_pFtMwDAESVS-2JPkeJG5MQ

2020-04-02 12:43:40 -0400

500 signatures reached

2020-03-31 15:38:29 -0400

100 signatures reached

2020-03-31 15:27:20 -0400

50 signatures reached

2020-03-31 15:23:26 -0400

25 signatures reached

2020-03-31 13:52:29 -0400

10 signatures reached