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Build a Wildlife Conservation Agenda for the New Administration

Target: President Barack Obama
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

The Bush/Cheney Administration took its toll on our wildlife and wild places. After nearly a decade of assaults on our natural heritage, the newly elected Obama Administration has an opportunity to provide leadership to fix the damage done – and move forward to address the biggest threat to wildlife and wild places: global warming.

After eight years of disastrous policies, our wildlife and wild places deserve real leadership to preserve America's natural heritage. Sign the petition to urge President Obama to act to restore America's leadership in wildlife conservation!

deadline: 11-18-2009
goal: 5,000

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Dear President Obama:

For the last eight years, our natural heritage has been under attack. The voices of extraction, extinction and exploitation have overwhelmed those calling for the protection and recovery of wildlife and wild places. Our most important environmental safeguards like the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act have been underfunded and undermined. And science has been manipulated and suppressed for political gain.

Much of the damage of the last eight years will not be easily undone, but I'm calling on you, as our new President, to:

1. Promise to end the political manipulation of science
2. Promise to responsibly manage America's federal lands
3. Promise to safeguard America's rarest plants and wildlife
4. Promise to make America a leader in addressing global warming and its impacts

We signed the “Build a Wildlife Conservation Agenda for the New Administration” petition!

# 2,856:

5:20 pm PST, Nov 17, Ellie Shain, California

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9:09 am PST, Nov 13, Theresia Cronan, California
Please help save Polar Bears! Their numbers are rapidly declining. They are currently listed as "Vulnerable", which means they will become extinct in the next 30 years if something is not done to help them. For decades, unrestricted hunting raised international concern for the future of the species; populations have rebounded after controls and quotas began to take effect.

# 2,854:

7:06 pm PST, Nov 5, Michael Raphaeli, Virginia
8. Promise not to stop oil drilling on public land.

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8:56 am PST, Nov 5, Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin

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7:41 am PST, Nov 2, Kathryn Moore, Tennessee

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3:40 am PST, Nov 2, Helle Collin, Denmark

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4:09 pm PDT, Oct 29, Oska Vant Hoff, Indonesia

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11:30 am PDT, Oct 22, Forest Venkat, India

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2:37 pm PDT, Oct 21, Julia Bedhouche, France

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8:37 pm PDT, Oct 20, Angel Bai, California

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11:22 am PDT, Oct 18, Darin Scherer, Kentucky

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12:18 am PDT, Oct 18, Becky Clayton, Texas

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8:11 am PDT, Oct 17, Tamara Morillas, Andorra

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12:13 am PDT, Oct 17, JennyLynn Werner, Arizona
We're going to answer to future generations for what we've done. Our children will know exactly what we did, and did not do, for them.

# 2,842:

7:46 pm PDT, Oct 13, Sarah Bowles, New Zealand

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6:46 am PDT, Oct 13, Kathleen Brabender, Wisconsin

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11:47 am PDT, Oct 12, Jennifer S., Nevada

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3:53 pm PDT, Oct 10, Nicolette Ludolphi, Germany

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3:48 pm PDT, Oct 10, Marcela Sabata, Argentina

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3:51 pm PDT, Oct 9, Mike Downs, Missouri
stop whaling

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2:18 pm PDT, Oct 6, NATHALIE LAZAREVSKI, France

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6:00 am PDT, Oct 6, Tonya Butts, New York

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8:18 pm PDT, Oct 5, PipperLea Nicol, Canada

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10:26 pm PDT, Oct 3, Natalie Morris, Washington

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7:20 am PDT, Oct 3, Karen Lyons kalmenson, New York

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8:50 am PDT, Oct 2, Łukasz Ziębicki, Poland

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3:18 pm PDT, Oct 1, Pam DeLitta, Texas

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11:53 am PDT, Oct 1, Joelle Coudriou, France

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2:28 pm PDT, Sep 28, Marissa Abramovic, Pennsylvania

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9:48 pm PDT, Sep 27, MICHELE VONSTAICH, California

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4:19 pm PDT, Sep 25, Alisha Nickols, California

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2:57 pm PDT, Sep 25, Natalie A. Carter, Ohio

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6:07 am PDT, Sep 25, Christina Hadgkiss, Florida

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2:41 pm PDT, Sep 24, Kathleen Kathleen, Arizona

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12:41 pm PDT, Sep 24, David Tsosie, Arizona

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9:56 am PDT, Sep 24, Carole Sarcinello, Tennessee

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3:29 am PDT, Sep 24, Marilyn Sass, California

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9:27 pm PDT, Sep 23, Betty Shipley, Florida

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9:01 pm PDT, Sep 23, Darlene Davis, Michigan

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8:18 pm PDT, Sep 23, Ani L. Schwartz, New Mexico
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle

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8:08 pm PDT, Sep 23, Gemma Hollingsworth, Australia

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7:59 pm PDT, Sep 23, Carmen Rico, Canada
Please, address this important matter with all your heart and all your knowledge, you are the most important leader on earth; if not you who else.

# 2,814:

7:27 pm PDT, Sep 23, Jean Dament, Canada
Promise to responsibly manage America's federal lands.

# 2,813:

5:40 pm PDT, Sep 23, Alice Bowron, Minnesota
We cannot continue allowing massive pollution of our air, water and resources by gigantic industries having carte blanche to do their worst: CAFOs must end; chemical 'dumping' and offshore oil devastation must end; we must transition as quickly as possible to real "green" technology. Jobs galore will be the result - and the reward will be a livable planet for our children and their children - and for the beloved domestic and wild animals that we have to learn to treat with compassion and ethics at long last. MITAKUYE OYASIN - WE ARE ALL RELATED!

# 2,812:

4:37 pm PDT, Sep 23, JULIAN RUSSELL, Virginia
Restore America's leadership in wildlife conservation and set an example for the entire global community to follow. Set legislation that will use a common-sense method to protecting wild-life, while considering wild-life above corporate interest or societal convenience. Seek out current laws that hamper conservation and destroy wild-life for inappropriate or misguided reasons. We as a species must live in harmony with our world, not destroy and dominate it.

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4:36 pm PDT, Sep 23, Daphna Jindrich, Mexico

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3:03 pm PDT, Sep 23, Laura Jaramillo, Colombia

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1:54 pm PDT, Sep 23, Linda Ellet, Illinois

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1:48 pm PDT, Sep 23, Nicole Perrot, California

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1:32 pm PDT, Sep 23, Jennifer Hall, Tennessee

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12:49 pm PDT, Sep 23, Angela Yearian, Illinois

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12:30 pm PDT, Sep 23, KRISTEN BREITWEG, Florida
STOP THIS ABUSE AND HELP...I AM SO SICK OF HUMANITY. HA, I SHOULD SAY HUMANS.

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11:33 am PDT, Sep 23, Name not displayed, Ireland

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10:41 am PDT, Sep 23, Rhonda Maness, Alabama

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10:40 am PDT, Sep 23, Judy Coleman, Nebraska

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10:29 am PDT, Sep 23, Tierney Grinavic, Maryland

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