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We Need Real Conservation Leadership
Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Care2
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.
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.
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# 6,659:
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
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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4:02 am PST, Nov 22,
Karen Campbell, California
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Michele Bucci, New Jersey
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Ingrid G., Illinois
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1:17 pm PDT, Aug 28,
Cher Nelson, Minnesota
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, Cher B. Nekson
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, Cher B. Nekson
# 6,620:
5:44 am PDT, Aug 26,
Kelly Kemp, California
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9:39 pm PDT, Aug 25,
Shawnamarie Murray MD, New Hampshire
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2:13 pm PDT, Aug 25,
Rick Blair, California
# 6,617:
12:15 pm PDT, Aug 25,
Ann Sumpter, Tennessee
It is so important and crucial that we take the time to protect all the wildlife on the planet. It might seem like a big job and I am sure that you are busy, but this legacy that we will leave behind is more important than people realize. I urge you to protect all these animals, the grizzly, wolves, eagles, jaguars, polar bears, ect, all of them. It is up to us. They are in our charge and we must not fail them. Our grandchildren will not be so happy with us. But I believe we will win to the glory of God who loves all his creatures. Please do what you can and have no regrets.
It is so important and crucial that we take the time to protect all the wildlife on the planet. It might seem like a big job and I am sure that you are busy, but this legacy that we will leave behind is more important than people realize. I urge you to protect all these animals, the grizzly, wolves, eagles, jaguars, polar bears, ect, all of them. It is up to us. They are in our charge and we must not fail them. Our grandchildren will not be so happy with us. But I believe we will win to the glory of God who loves all his creatures. Please do what you can and have no regrets.
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2:18 pm PDT, Aug 22,
Sandra Mathews, Washington
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4:03 am PDT, Aug 22,
Asli Gedik, Germany
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12:14 am PDT, Aug 21,
Rose Griffin, New York
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9:02 am PDT, Aug 20,
Lillie Van Scoy, Virginia
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7:37 pm PDT, Aug 14,
Kristie Lyon, Missouri
It is so important and crucial that we take the time to protect all the wildlife on the planet. It might seem like a big job and I am sure that you are busy, but this legacy that we will leave behind is more important than people realize. I urge you to protect all these animals, the grizzly, wolves, eagles, jaguars, polar bears, ect, all of them. It is up to us. They are in our charge and we must not fail them. Our grandchildren will not be so happy with us. But I believe we will win to the glory of God who loves all his creatures. Please do what you can and have no regrets.
It is so important and crucial that we take the time to protect all the wildlife on the planet. It might seem like a big job and I am sure that you are busy, but this legacy that we will leave behind is more important than people realize. I urge you to protect all these animals, the grizzly, wolves, eagles, jaguars, polar bears, ect, all of them. It is up to us. They are in our charge and we must not fail them. Our grandchildren will not be so happy with us. But I believe we will win to the glory of God who loves all his creatures. Please do what you can and have no regrets.
# 6,611:
5:46 pm PDT, Aug 14,
Shawna Murray md, New Hampshire
# 6,610:
1:47 pm PDT, Aug 14,
J T Butler, Texas
We currently have a very bad issue that needs to be addressed. All over our planet earth people/businesses/governments and others have seem to forgotten that the Earth is a planet that requires a good amount of balance to exist. Our ecosystem is getting worse all the time because people are changing the system by killing off animals that are part of the system. If there were in fact too many of one species of animal the ecosystem would eventually balance the system to bring it back to par. The issue is that man is treating Earth badly and eventually (if we are not already) will suffer for this injustice we are doing to our home planet. When these issue are addressed to your office, keep in mind that your grandchildren and their children deserve to have the opportunity to see the Earth as we do, with all of the different species of animals and plants. So when you do vote remember to vote for your heirs and allow animals/plants and the environment to be protected from mans current injustice to the planet Earth.
We currently have a very bad issue that needs to be addressed. All over our planet earth people/businesses/governments and others have seem to forgotten that the Earth is a planet that requires a good amount of balance to exist. Our ecosystem is getting worse all the time because people are changing the system by killing off animals that are part of the system. If there were in fact too many of one species of animal the ecosystem would eventually balance the system to bring it back to par. The issue is that man is treating Earth badly and eventually (if we are not already) will suffer for this injustice we are doing to our home planet. When these issue are addressed to your office, keep in mind that your grandchildren and their children deserve to have the opportunity to see the Earth as we do, with all of the different species of animals and plants. So when you do vote remember to vote for your heirs and allow animals/plants and the environment to be protected from mans current injustice to the planet Earth.
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12:58 am PDT, Aug 14,
Loraine Yow, Oregon
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11:04 pm PDT, Aug 13,
Kristina Werner, Michigan
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8:44 pm PDT, Aug 12,
Sherri Bessire, Texas
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3:41 am PDT, Aug 12,
Connie Conaway, Pennsylvania
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1:28 am PDT, Aug 12,
Jacqueline Conaway-Rush, Pennsylvania
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6:59 pm PDT, Aug 11,
Twyla Sparks, Indiana
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4:35 pm PDT, Aug 11,
Karen Simon, Illinois
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Stacy Samson, Oklahoma
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11:25 am PDT, Aug 6,
Shelly ., Washington