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We Need Real Conservation Leadership

Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Care2

In his two years on the job of protecting America's wildlife and wildlands, Interior Secretary Kempthorne hasn't listed a single new species under the Endangered Species Act - even though federal biologists warn that at least 280 native species could disappear forever without such protections.

In fact, under Secretary Kempthorne, the Department of the Interior has:

repeatedly delayed protections for polar bears - which could disappear from America in 50 years if we continue to do nothing to save them,
removed vital federal protections for gray wolves in Greater Yellowstone,
and denied critical protections for jaguars, wolverines, and other imperiled wildlife.

It is Congress's job to hold the Secretary accountable when he fails to do his job. Please send a message now to urge your U.S. Representative to call for Congressional hearings on Secretary Kempthorne's failure to protect America's wildlife.

deadline: 4-21-2009
goal: 10,000

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Dear Representative,

I urge you to support Congressional hearings on the Secretary of Interior's abysmal track record on protecting threatened and endangered species.

Since being appointed almost two years ago, Secretary Kempthorne hasn't listed a single new species under the Endangered Species Act -- even though federal biologists concede that at least 280 native species could disappear forever without such protections.

Without federal protections, species like the American bald eagle, gray wolf and grizzly bear might not still be around. Yet Secretary Kempthorne continues to delay action and deny protections that may be vital to saving many of our native wildlife species.

Under Secretary Kempthorne, the U.S. Interior Department continues to delay protections for polar bears. Instead, he approved a lease sale for harmful drilling in the Chukchi Sea vital habitat for one of just two polar bear populations in America.

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6:15 am PDT, Apr 20, Name not displayed, California

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1:29 pm PDT, Apr 8, John Hatton, Vermont

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7:58 pm PDT, Apr 6, Constant Wanham, Massachusetts
It saddens me to think that so many in power care so little for our original home and neighbors.

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11:22 pm PDT, Apr 4, Bruce Williams, California

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12:59 pm PDT, Apr 4, Laurel Hays, Illinois

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5:22 pm PDT, Mar 30, Rebecca Stabile, Rhode Island

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5:31 am PDT, Mar 30, Sharon Ecker, Delaware
Dear Representative, I urge you to support Congressional hearings on the Secretary of Interior's abysmal track record on protecting threatened and endangered species. Since being appointed almost two years ago, Secretary Kempthorne hasn't listed a single new species under the Endangered Species Act -- even though federal biologists concede that at least 280 native species could disappear forever without such protections. Without federal protections, species like the American bald eagle, gray wolf and grizzly bear might not still be around. Yet Secretary Kempthorne continues to delay action and deny protections that may be vital to saving many of our native wildlife species. Under Secretary Kempthorne, the U.S. Interior Department continues to delay protections for polar bears. Instead, he approved a lease sale for harmful drilling in the Chukchi Sea vital habitat for one of just two polar bear populations in America. view more Despite the presence of jaguars in the United States and the existence of large swaths of prime jaguar habitat, Kempthorne's department also refused to create a recovery plan for these endangered cats, claiming that jaguars are a "foreign" species. But under this flawed argument, the U.S. would have had no obligation to protect bald eagles, wolves, grizzlies or other native species so long as they existed somewhere outside the lower 48 states! And that's not all. Kempthorne's Interior Department has denied vital protections for other imperiled species, including wolverines, red knots and North Atlantic right whales. I urge you support hearings to hold Secretary Kempthorne responsible for his awful performance on protecting these and other species. Once these species are gone we can't get them back. Thank you for considering my comments. Sincerely, Sharon Ecker

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2:00 am PST, Feb 19, Brittany Hoffer, Ohio

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10:28 am PST, Feb 16, Name not displayed, New York
This is one of the causes I deeply care about and your prompt action will affect the environment welfare.

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12:43 am PST, Jan 6, D B, United Kingdom
stop bob the builder playing with his toys and temm him/her to build else where ie a busy motorway or on mars

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2:35 pm PST, Jan 5, Ari R. Kolman, Canada
I�m sickened and disgusted. Please stop the Holocaust already!! Animal Abuse, Sick Behavior AND THE KILLING OF THE ANIMALS. The World Is Watching You and we will take action.. How do you sleep at night? People who do these things to innocent animals (who scream and cry and feel the pain), should be arrested and put in jail. And I will work on this to happen.

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1:51 pm PST, Jan 5, Gail Costic, Pennsylvania

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12:09 pm PST, Jan 5, Jennifer Jorgenson, California

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6:08 am PST, Jan 5, Dave Brew, United Kingdom
i agree save our animal from extinction

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9:02 pm PST, Dec 30, Ernie McLaney, North Carolina
It's absurd the way our nation's wildlife has been treated. I ask you to help me correct the erros made by short-sighted individuals who seem to be working for coporations rather than the citizens of this country.

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9:41 am PST, Dec 17, Melinda Manderbach, California
Without federal protections, species like the American bald eagle, the gray wolf and grizzly bears might not still be around. Yet Secretary Kempthorne continues to delay action and deny protections that may be vital to saving many of our native wildlife species. Instead, he approved a lease sale for harmful drilling in the Chukchi Sea vital habitat for one of just two polar bear populations in America. It is Congress' job to hold the Secretary accountable when he fails to do his job. Please call for a Congressional hearing on Secretary Kempthorne's failure to protect America's wildlife.

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3:59 am PST, Dec 9, Mandy Reinhold, Florida

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10:25 am PST, Nov 22, Keth T, Florida
i heard about 2 or 3 years ago that they execpt by 2053 that over half the wildlife on this earth will be exstincted so we need to do something now

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