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Take Action to Protect Ocelot Habitat

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Environmental Defense Fund
Fewer than 100 endangered ocelots still roam the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Now the Department of Homeland Security wants to build a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border that would cut through much of the ocelot's remaining habitat and prevent the little cats from swimming across the Rio Grande to mate.

Urge your member of Congress to become a co-sponsor of the Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007 (H.R. 2593).
deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000
 

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Dear [congressperson],

I am opposed to the proposed Department of Homeland Security's border fence in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas because it will cut through rare semitropical forests important to the ocelot and other species.

I want to secure our nation's borders, but I believe we can do so without sacrificing our wildlife and natural heritage. Building a fence through sensitive ecological areas without thorough review of the environmental impacts is inconsistent with our national policies protecting habitat for rare, threatened and endangered species.
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We took action on “Take Action to Protect Ocelot Habitat”!
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7:11 pm PST, Dec 3, David Peters, United Kingdom
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6:46 am PST, Dec 3, Cindy Bushway, Florida
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6:22 am PST, Dec 3, EJ Mcm, Canada
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7:46 pm PST, Nov 12, Sunja Goldenrose, Oregon
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1:26 pm PST, Nov 10, Annie Phillips, New York
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12:42 am PST, Nov 10, Name not displayed, California
This is the biggest cruelties to animals that is making mother nature fierce. She really has her eye on this one. Cruelty on animals must stop. Animals are a part of mother nature and she is getting very angry with people hurting and destroying her beloved animals, earth and environment. She is soon to whip her tail with full blown whips, and that is something I can guarantee that you don't want to experience. Nobody has ever began to experience her full blown whips, only her small whips. And she is now preparing to whip her tail with numerous full blown whips! Once mother nature whips her tail, there is no stopping her, regardless of who you are. The days are growing shorter, and so is her fiery. Therefore, keep on making her angry and I promise you will regret it. You have been warned.
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3:48 pm PST, Nov 9, Maggie De Leon, Illinois
global warming is killing off enough species, and without making changes to global warming, you're allowing it to happen. this fence is icing on your cake.
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10:22 pm PST, Nov 8, Tina Foschia, Pennsylvania
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1:06 pm PDT, Oct 31, Arsen Krsmanovic, Serbia And Montenegro
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7:28 am PDT, Oct 29, April Eck, Wisconsin
think... people aren't the only ones who need to be considered in this
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9:32 pm PDT, Oct 28, Nicole Schreiber, California
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5:18 pm PDT, Oct 26, Jennifer Ewell, Massachusetts
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8:33 am PDT, Oct 26, Janie Mullins, Texas
This act is very important to me
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5:11 pm PDT, Oct 11, Terry Schatz, Pennsylvania
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3:40 pm PDT, Oct 11, Sue Townsend, Texas
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12:18 pm PDT, Oct 11, Christopher Van Allen, Maryland
I hope you will support this legislation.
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7:33 pm PDT, Oct 2, Susan Marden, Maine
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6:26 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, New Jersey
What a gorgeous animal the Ocelot is...They must be saved before going extinct - PLEASE keep them alive!
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4:15 pm PDT, Oct 2, Stephanie Price, Ohio
With a creature so rare, so beautiful, why jeopardize their existence and lives (not to mention the existence and lives of other creatures) just to put up a stupid wall? Does anyone not get it that the illegals will find so many way to get past that wall that it is going to be pointless? I'm tired of humans not thinking outside the species. Animals need us, and believe it or not we need them. And its time to show them that we do!!
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1:26 pm PDT, Oct 2, Dana Cooper, Pennsylvania
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9:08 am PDT, Oct 1, Maya Godwin, West Virginia
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7:32 pm PDT, Sep 30, Richelle Rausch, Washington
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9:13 am PDT, Sep 30, Name not displayed, Washington D.C.
Nature will win.
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8:55 am PDT, Sep 30, Leo Diener, Texas
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6:55 pm PDT, Sep 29, Adriana Dorazco, Mexico
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