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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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These animals have just as much of a right, maybe more, to be here on Earth as we do.
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The ESA, in its entirety, is key to the survival of many species. To weaken it is a shortsighted move that is not in the best interest of American voters.
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these endangered species have barely had a chance to stabilize their populations and you want to start right back in on destroying them. do you not understand the web of life? we are a part of it, not above it...why don't you take a hike and experience the beauty of what you are destroying in the name of "progress"
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Critical habitat is just that - it is habitat that is essential to both the survival and recovery of an endangered species.
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It is the responsibility of those in positions of power to protect species with no voice. If we as humans continue to deforest, destroy wetlands, sprawl into wild territory, etc, there will be nothing left.
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Wake UP! You sleeping on the job and getting paid for it!
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When will our elected leaders get the point that by not protecting and enforcing environmental laws, we are slowly destroying our own earth that we ourselves, as an integral and inseparable part of creation, need for sustenance?
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Biologists equate the habitat with the species, if the correct habitat is protected, the protection of the species has a greater chance to occur. Duh!
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All living beings have a purpose, and eliminating that purpose initiates kinks in the master plan. Thus, the master plan does not work most efficiently. As well, it's just plain WRONG!
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critical habitat enhancement, just like the healthy forest initiiative...you are not fooling anyone and we will remember at election time.
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The present administrations attempt to put profits before common sense, is proof of the primitive narrow vision and the corporate-style short term thinking they have been displaying on a daily basis. Their motto "Destroy today for profit,let the future generations pay the price".
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WE destroy other creatures, we destroy ourselves as humans.
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I am opposed to any bills that will lessen the authority of the Endangered Species Act. I ask that you support the ESA in all its provisions and not support bills that seek to limit its breadth and scope of protection. Especially important are bills that seek to remove Science-based decision making and bills that do not scientifically define terms such as "recovery", "environmental health", or "environmental integrity". Please continue to support the ESA and the inclusion of critical habitat under this law so that habitat may be protected for the species that need it.
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Are we going to kill off everything of value to our planet?
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