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Stop Congress from gutting the Endangered Species Act!
Target: U.S. RepresentativesSponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was one of the first species listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Long feared extinct, the bird clung to life in habitat protected in hopes of its recovery, and just last month the conservation community was rewarded with confirmed evidence of the bird's survival in the forested swamps of Arkansas.
But a new bill introduced by Representative Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) - the misnamed Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005 - would eliminate crucial protections for habitat that endangered species like the ivory-billed woodpecker need to both survive and recover.
The Cardoza bill abandons a fundamental goal of the Endangered Species Act - recovery of endangered species. Under this bill, we would lose the very protections that brought both the bald eagle and the Peregrine falcon back from the brink of extinction, and that allowed us to never lose hope for the Ivory-billed woodpecker.
Critical habitat is just that - it is habitat that is essential to both the survival and recovery of an endangered species. But the Cardoza bill aims to gut the meaning and definition of critical habitat. If we can no longer protect critical habitat, then we can no longer protect species themselves. By stripping wildlife habitat of critical protection, the Cardoza bill is essentially leaving our wildlife homeless, and dooming our most imperiled species to extinction.
Take action today - tell Congress to protect the Endangered Species Act! Sign this petition to send a letter to your Representative, and urge her/him to vote NO on H.R. 1299.
But a new bill introduced by Representative Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) - the misnamed Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005 - would eliminate crucial protections for habitat that endangered species like the ivory-billed woodpecker need to both survive and recover.
The Cardoza bill abandons a fundamental goal of the Endangered Species Act - recovery of endangered species. Under this bill, we would lose the very protections that brought both the bald eagle and the Peregrine falcon back from the brink of extinction, and that allowed us to never lose hope for the Ivory-billed woodpecker.
Critical habitat is just that - it is habitat that is essential to both the survival and recovery of an endangered species. But the Cardoza bill aims to gut the meaning and definition of critical habitat. If we can no longer protect critical habitat, then we can no longer protect species themselves. By stripping wildlife habitat of critical protection, the Cardoza bill is essentially leaving our wildlife homeless, and dooming our most imperiled species to extinction.
Take action today - tell Congress to protect the Endangered Species Act! Sign this petition to send a letter to your Representative, and urge her/him to vote NO on H.R. 1299.
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We signed the “Stop Congress from gutting the Endangered Species Act!” petition!
# 6,400:
5:39 am PDT, Oct 17,
Jennie Shortman, United Kingdom
# 6,399:
7:25 pm PDT, Oct 16,
Dorinne Bilger, Pennsylvania
# 6,398:
5:45 pm PDT, Oct 16,
Laurel Eckert, Missouri
# 6,397:
4:14 pm PDT, Oct 16,
Jeanne Chapman, Colorado
# 6,396:
10:57 am PDT, Oct 16,
Patricia Webber, California
Please uphold the Endangered Species Act and its crucial goal of species recovery by voting "no" on HR 1299, the Critical Enhancement Act of 2005. We must protect, and safeguard our ever-diminshing, precious wildlife for generations to come. Thank you for voting "no" on HR 1299.
Please uphold the Endangered Species Act and its crucial goal of species recovery by voting "no" on HR 1299, the Critical Enhancement Act of 2005. We must protect, and safeguard our ever-diminshing, precious wildlife for generations to come. Thank you for voting "no" on HR 1299.
# 6,395:
10:33 am PDT, Oct 16,
Carmen McCane, Kentucky
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT MODERN SOCIETY; IT WOULD SEEM THAT AN INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEING IS A SIGHT RARELY SEEN. EVEN WORSE IS THE EPIDEMIC OF EXTINCT HUMAN HEARTS.
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT MODERN SOCIETY; IT WOULD SEEM THAT AN INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEING IS A SIGHT RARELY SEEN. EVEN WORSE IS THE EPIDEMIC OF EXTINCT HUMAN HEARTS.
# 6,394:
8:24 am PDT, Oct 16,
Kelsey Hausfeld, Minnesota
# 6,393:
8:20 am PDT, Oct 16,
Penny Howes, Ohio
# 6,392:
5:18 am PDT, Oct 16,
Samantha White Raven, Australia
Wake Up and Be Universally Responsible for This Planet. We Care If YOU DON'T.
Wake Up and Be Universally Responsible for This Planet. We Care If YOU DON'T.
# 6,391:
10:02 pm PDT, Oct 15,
Amy Kinns, New York
Please protect the endangered species act. The ivory-billed woodpecker is worth. Please do not change one of the most caring of laws.
Please protect the endangered species act. The ivory-billed woodpecker is worth. Please do not change one of the most caring of laws.
# 6,390:
9:57 pm PDT, Oct 15,
Sheila Connole, Virginia
# 6,389:
9:24 am PDT, Oct 15,
ROBIN LEE, Georgia
# 6,388:
6:41 am PDT, Oct 15,
Eileen Keiley, New York
# 6,387:
6:16 am PDT, Oct 15,
Moni Vazquez, Mexico
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4:15 am PDT, Oct 15,
Keaton Velox, Arizona
# 6,385:
1:01 am PDT, Oct 15,
Angie Liljegren, Illinois
# 6,384:
10:00 pm PDT, Oct 14,
John Tanner, Arizona
If we allow them to die we are killing ourselves.
If we allow them to die we are killing ourselves.
# 6,383:
8:44 pm PDT, Oct 14,
Cathy Lewis, Arizona
# 6,382:
5:41 pm PDT, Oct 14,
Name not displayed, Kansas
# 6,381:
8:55 am PDT, Oct 13,
Douglas Douglas Kelban, New York
# 6,380:
6:58 am PDT, Oct 13,
Kimberly Wyke, Maine
If it is within our power to avoid extinction of another species, then I believe very strongly that we must act responsibly. After all, we are the ones who have "caused" the species to be "Endangered".
If it is within our power to avoid extinction of another species, then I believe very strongly that we must act responsibly. After all, we are the ones who have "caused" the species to be "Endangered".
# 6,379:
6:44 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Heike Friedrich, Germany
# 6,378:
12:41 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 6,377:
12:33 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Sassy Albee, Texas
# 6,376:
11:59 am PDT, Oct 12,
Samantha Weber, Kentucky
We have worked so hard and long to protect Americas Wildlife. Why should we throw all of that away and for what? The Endangered Species Act is being cut up and thrown away so that big companies (oil and lumber) can go and carve up America for their profit and no one else’s. Save the Endangered Species Act. Don’t change it for the worse and destroy what makes America beautiful and unique.
We have worked so hard and long to protect Americas Wildlife. Why should we throw all of that away and for what? The Endangered Species Act is being cut up and thrown away so that big companies (oil and lumber) can go and carve up America for their profit and no one else’s. Save the Endangered Species Act. Don’t change it for the worse and destroy what makes America beautiful and unique.
# 6,375:
9:46 am PDT, Oct 12,
Laura Butler, Michigan
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7:52 am PDT, Oct 12,
Karen Lebel, Tennessee
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5:47 am PDT, Oct 12,
Alan Carroll, Ireland
# 6,372:
10:40 pm PDT, Oct 11,
Nick Lubofsky, Colorado
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8:06 pm PDT, Oct 11,
Rose Hall, Washington
# 6,370:
5:29 pm PDT, Oct 11,
Caroline Szalay, New Jersey
# 6,369:
3:48 pm PDT, Oct 11,
Andrea Cole, South Dakota
Our wildlife will perish very soon because we are not doing anything to protect it. Bush becomes pres. and we're are expected to watch our wildlife die.
Our wildlife will perish very soon because we are not doing anything to protect it. Bush becomes pres. and we're are expected to watch our wildlife die.
# 6,368:
1:58 pm PDT, Oct 11,
Michael Kobert, California
# 6,367:
1:39 pm PDT, Oct 11,
Lena Burke, Michigan
# 6,366:
1:04 pm PDT, Oct 11,
D Moy, New Jersey
STOP gutting the Endangered Species Act!
STOP gutting the Endangered Species Act!
# 6,365:
12:49 pm PDT, Oct 11,
Pam Irimescu, Michigan
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12:23 pm PDT, Oct 11,
JoAnne Harris, Kentucky
# 6,363:
6:12 am PDT, Oct 11,
David Blankenship, Ohio
# 6,362:
7:50 pm PDT, Oct 10,
Barbara Jackson, Texas
please stop threatening endangered animals lives
please stop threatening endangered animals lives
# 6,361:
5:02 pm PDT, Oct 10,
Name not displayed, Utah
How can you think of such a thing? The Endangered Species Act is one the most valuable and important laws that exist! Without animals no human could survive. We're supposed to respect them, protect them. NOT KILL THEM!
How can you think of such a thing? The Endangered Species Act is one the most valuable and important laws that exist! Without animals no human could survive. We're supposed to respect them, protect them. NOT KILL THEM!
# 6,360:
4:16 pm PDT, Oct 10,
Kara Bray, Minnesota
Here's an idea Mr President. How bout you don't destroy EVERYTHING before your last term is up. Why do you choose now to be an over achiever?
Here's an idea Mr President. How bout you don't destroy EVERYTHING before your last term is up. Why do you choose now to be an over achiever?
# 6,359:
8:07 am PDT, Oct 10,
Jerrilynn Hull, Florida
# 6,358:
5:54 am PDT, Oct 10,
Kerry Duggan, United Kingdom
Why on earth would you want to do that?! We have dominion over the animals of the earth and it is our duty to protect and nurture them - it is a responsibility that we should take very seriously because without animals to balance the very delicate eco-structure, the human race would not survive.
Why on earth would you want to do that?! We have dominion over the animals of the earth and it is our duty to protect and nurture them - it is a responsibility that we should take very seriously because without animals to balance the very delicate eco-structure, the human race would not survive.
# 6,357:
5:19 am PDT, Oct 10,
Kelly Chippie, Delaware
# 6,356:
8:53 pm PDT, Oct 9,
Melissa LaNinfa, Florida
# 6,355:
3:21 pm PDT, Oct 9,
Laura Engelage, Missouri
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3:14 pm PDT, Oct 9,
Name not displayed, Georgia
# 6,353:
1:48 pm PDT, Oct 9,
Sara Rosen, California
# 6,352:
9:46 am PDT, Oct 9,
Maria Blalock, North Carolina
# 6,351:
9:25 am PDT, Oct 9,
Meagan Pilkin, Wisconsin
don't be stupid.....Do not support this...Support our wildlife
don't be stupid.....Do not support this...Support our wildlife