Around the world, great cats and wild canines such as jaguars, clouded leopards and African wild dogs are declining drastically due to habitat loss, poaching, disease, and human-wildlife conflict.
In response, several concerned Members of Congress have introduced the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act (HR 1707) to provide crucial funding to international conservation efforts for seven feline and six canine species recognized as endangered or threatened under international law.
While the threats to these species vary - including poaching for their pelts or believed medicinal value and exposure to diseases introduced by domesticated species - the result is always the same. In all cases, habitat degradation and increasing interaction with human populations have resulted in these species' rapid decline. If we act now, we can help ensure the long-term survival of these extraordinary creatures in the wild.
Please sign this petition today to urge your Representative to cosponsor the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act! We owe it to future generations to protect these biologically important and magnificent animals.
We signed the “Help Protect Endangered Great Cats and Rare Canines” petition!
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7:05 am PDT, Apr 10,Kelly Ryan, Florida
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11:13 am PDT, Apr 9,Candy Bowman, California
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10:02 am PDT, Apr 9,Lisa Mussi, New York
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6:11 pm PDT, Apr 8,Jocelyn Mello, Massachusetts
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9:58 am PDT, Apr 8,Cynthia Phillips, Kentucky
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9:42 am PDT, Apr 8,Name not displayed, Illinois
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8:25 am PDT, Apr 8,Charlotte Linsey, United Kingdom
Animals have their own rights and deserve to live just like us. They will be good to see later on in the future.
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2:00 am PDT, Apr 8,Tami Jeanne Guptill, Arizona
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9:56 pm PDT, Apr 7,TOMMY JOHNSON, Alabama
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8:38 pm PDT, Apr 6,Name not displayed, Puerto Rico
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11:28 am PDT, Apr 5,Name not displayed, Tennessee
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10:31 am PDT, Apr 5,Megan E, Georgia
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8:07 am PDT, Apr 5,Melissa Kramer, Illinois
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7:39 am PDT, Apr 5,Danny Bryson, California
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7:19 pm PDT, Apr 4,Fernando Yi, Florida
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8:57 am PDT, Apr 3,NADIA TAFOYA, Mexico
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1:39 pm PDT, Apr 2,Bridgett A, Texas
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10:11 am PDT, Apr 2,Name not displayed, Mexico
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12:22 am PST, Apr 2,Jacqueline McVicar, Florida
So that our children and their children will not have to visit a 'hybrid' of these animals in a zoo. Most of these animals habitats also contain many important medicines that could be used to cure (or put in remission) so many of today's worse deseases.
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4:26 pm PST, Apr 1,Stephanie Pope, Nevada
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10:21 am PST, Apr 1,Nathalie Moutal, California
please protect animals !!! tehy deserve to live, they might go extinct if you don't! and then there will be less and less until no more!it WILL be your fault!!! so please protect those animals!
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10:04 am PST, Apr 1,Jason Seaver, Indiana
My personal favorite of all that mother nature has to offer: Big Cats.
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8:41 am PST, Apr 1,Paola Barrenechea, Mexico
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2:40 pm PST, Mar 31,Daniel Burrows, Maine
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11:50 am PST, Mar 31,Alma Kelly, Pennsylvania
Please do not kill innocent animals...it would be nice for future generations too see these animals alive and free.
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2:14 am PST, Mar 31,Trish Mitchell, Australia
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1:53 pm PST, Mar 30,Ray Moseley, California
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12:44 pm PST, Mar 30,Amanda Tripple, New York
These animals need to be protected, please provide the funding.
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6:55 am PST, Mar 30,James Keating, Michigan
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6:10 am PST, Mar 30,Tia Brown, Alabama
because they have feelings too
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5:37 pm PST, Mar 29,Cosmic Rhino Gifts, California
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4:11 pm PST, Mar 29,Amy Shaner, Tennessee
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3:52 pm PST, Mar 29,Name not displayed, Ohio
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5:34 am PST, Mar 29,Kate Barrett, United Kingdom
its critical because if we dont act & do our best & utmost to save them one day all we'll have is photographs and that is a very real threat. it's happend before. for example; the thylacine / tasmanian tiger.
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10:34 pm PST, Mar 28,Ahymee Vila, Puerto Rico
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6:10 pm PST, Mar 28,Paula Blankenbiller, Pennsylvania
