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Take Action to Protect Ocelot Habitat
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Environmental Defense Fund
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).
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).
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JANETTA BULLAS, United Kingdom
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William Lawson, California
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Marjorie Conrad, Wisconsin
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AC Long, Washington
Oceolots are found only from the Texan border to Brazil. And every nation south of Texas hunts oceolots for fur. Please don't give up on a species because of it's location. And building more fences, will not always garuantee our nation's security. They shall always be ignored by those who wish to enter.
Oceolots are found only from the Texan border to Brazil. And every nation south of Texas hunts oceolots for fur. Please don't give up on a species because of it's location. And building more fences, will not always garuantee our nation's security. They shall always be ignored by those who wish to enter.
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Willow Bourn, Australia
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Sean Estes, California
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Kenneth Depew Jr., New Jersey
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Blackcat Penny, United Kingdom
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Lauren Ferreira, Maine
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Kelly Sommers, New York
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Joe Park, Oregon
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Jenni Audette, Minnesota
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10:04 am PDT, Jul 26,
Frances Sims, Pennsylvania
The safety & future of our country depends as much (if not more) on protecting our environment as it does protecting our borders! We don't have to sacrifice one to ensure the other! Please, I know we can find a better way to secure our nation!
The safety & future of our country depends as much (if not more) on protecting our environment as it does protecting our borders! We don't have to sacrifice one to ensure the other! Please, I know we can find a better way to secure our nation!
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Diane Blazer, Oregon
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save the kitties
save the kitties
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Corielle Riddell, Kentucky
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Sophia Papadohatzaki, Greece
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Keith Garrett, California
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Karine Ferreira Strazisar, Portugal
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David Warkentin, California
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Kevin Miller, California
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Aimee Polekoff, Pennsylvania
I did not know that there are ocelots living in the US. Now that I do know, however, I certainly don't want that knowledge to become obsolete (as what would happen if they disappeared). We can secure our nation's borders in better ways than wasting money on ugly fences. How about we spend that money instead on improving conditions in Mexico enough that its people are no longer so desperate as to attempt to sneak across illegally? We don't hear about illegal Canadian immigrants, and there's no fence on that border. The ocelots and other wild animals have nothing to gain and everything to lose from a fence, and we have little to gain and much to lose. The decision isn't so hard now, is it?
I did not know that there are ocelots living in the US. Now that I do know, however, I certainly don't want that knowledge to become obsolete (as what would happen if they disappeared). We can secure our nation's borders in better ways than wasting money on ugly fences. How about we spend that money instead on improving conditions in Mexico enough that its people are no longer so desperate as to attempt to sneak across illegally? We don't hear about illegal Canadian immigrants, and there's no fence on that border. The ocelots and other wild animals have nothing to gain and everything to lose from a fence, and we have little to gain and much to lose. The decision isn't so hard now, is it?
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Amie King, Colorado
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Ann Coz, Massachusetts
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Crystal Wiener, Connecticut
Protect this species. Do not have a hand in it's demise.
Protect this species. Do not have a hand in it's demise.
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