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Voice Your Support of President Bush's Ocean Conservation Plan!

Target: President Bush
Sponsored by: Care2

President Bush has been working with environmental conservation groups to create a list of endangered ocean areas around U.S. territories. Under the Antiquities Act of 1906, the president can protect areas of historic or scientific interest without congressional approval. President Bush is planning to use this power to designate marine monuments - that is, national parks for oceans. Such a designation would protect these areas, which include rich coral reefs and magnificent sea life, from fishing, oil exploitation and other commercial development. The Bush Administration proposal is a needed step in the continuing health of our world's oceans and ecosystems! It is important for the president to know that the public is in favor of his initiative. Voice your thanks to President Bush, and tell him you support his unprecedented marine conservation program today.

For more information on this proposal, see the NPR article Bush May Create Largest Marine Reserves in World.

deadline: 5-23-2009
goal: 10,000

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In early January, 2009, President George W. Bush designated vast tracts of American-controlled Pacific Ocean islands, reefs and sea floor as marine national monuments.

The protected zones, including parts of the deep Mariana Trench and an area near the Equator and American Samoa, span over 195,000 square miles, or an area larger than the states of Oregon and Washington combined.

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Dear President Bush,

I write in support of your plan to designate marine monuments in our world's oceans. Your proposal will protect valuable ecosystems for the rich coral reefs and diverse marine animals that rely on our world's oceans for survival.

Together with the marine reserve around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands you created in 2006, these marine monuments create a "blue legacy" for your presidency. Using the power you have under the Antiquities Act to protect threatened waters is a valuable use of your position.

[Your comment here]

I appreciate your dedication to conserving the delicate ecosystems in our world's oceans.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We signed the “Voice Your Support of President Bush's Ocean Conservation Plan!” letter!

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2:00 pm PST, Jan 5, Gail Costic, Pennsylvania

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2:34 pm PST, Jan 3, Name not displayed, Maryland

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7:25 am PST, Jan 1, Rika Toll, Utah

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3:23 pm PST, Dec 29, Jennifer Gardner, Florida

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2:27 pm PST, Dec 27, Aaron Vannatta, Pennsylvania

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7:20 pm PST, Dec 21, Aimee Van Buren, California

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8:23 am PST, Dec 17, Kelly Lance, Nevada
I support any Bush effort. He has only been the best president in history and cannot do any wrong. Every decision he has ever made was to better the quality of our lives, therefore I support him. Without reticence.

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9:37 pm PST, Dec 16, Kitarra Irwin, Colorado

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10:32 pm PST, Dec 11, Brittany Hoffer, Ohio

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10:58 am PST, Dec 11, Melinda Manderbach, California

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3:12 pm PST, Dec 3, Chia-Fen Yu, California

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12:03 pm PST, Dec 2, Lorin King, Texas

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4:21 pm PST, Nov 30, Kyle 3 Hale, Florida

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6:01 pm PST, Nov 26, Natalie Santiago, Puerto Rico

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11:50 am PST, Nov 21, Debra Hynes, United Kingdom

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3:33 pm PST, Nov 20, Sheila Parks, North Carolina

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6:26 pm PST, Nov 19, Judith Jaehn, California

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4:52 pm PST, Nov 19, Michele Bucci, New Jersey

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8:14 am PST, Nov 19, Sara J. Schmidt, Missouri

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6:57 pm PST, Nov 16, Ida Dorn, California

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6:08 pm PST, Nov 15, Hannah Raines, Tennessee

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2:42 pm PST, Nov 15, Alison Chabonais, Florida
This is one of the few big pushes you've made in your second term that I can support. Thanks from us, wildlife and the planet.

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9:27 am PST, Nov 13, Eric Fink, Florida

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10:48 pm PST, Nov 12, KAREN BERRY, New York

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8:06 pm PST, Nov 10, William Chaky, New Jersey

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7:27 am PST, Nov 10, Fiona Kwok, Malaysia
The oceans give us life. Ocean reefs support entire eco-systems and fish stocks (currently collapsing) that require complete protection to ensure future sustainability and a planet that future generations can inherit intact and not have to fix.

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11:42 pm PST, Nov 9, Mandy Reinhold, Florida

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10:50 pm PST, Nov 9, Name not displayed, Virginia

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2:39 pm PST, Nov 6, Alan J. Burke, New Hampshire

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3:48 pm PST, Nov 4, Julia Pollard, California

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10:41 am PST, Nov 4, Eugene Falik, New York

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8:10 am PST, Nov 4, Pat Schools, Pennsylvania
This action will protect this region and it's wildlife from the Eastern Garbage Patch. GOOD JOB...President Bush!!!

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5:21 pm PST, Nov 3, Chernail Arnold, Georgia

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2:44 pm PDT, Nov 1, Cheryl Marsh, California

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11:32 pm PDT, Oct 23, Name not displayed, Kansas
The oceans and all the creatures that live in them are so important to human beings--not only as a food and biological resources but for our spiritual and mental health too. Seeing the ocean from the shore adds richness and beauty to many people's lives. Playing, snorkeling, and diving in the ocean's coral reefs is one of the most wonderful things I have ever experienced. The ocean heals us if we protect it. Thenk you for your help in making this great thing happen!

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7:50 pm PDT, Oct 23, Kristina O'Brien, New York

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12:45 pm PDT, Oct 20, Rebecca Bernard, Ohio

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12:01 pm PDT, Oct 20, Lori Childers, Florida

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6:19 pm PDT, Oct 19, Tashia Mccarty, Maryland

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10:02 pm PDT, Oct 18, Tamara Fulmer, Pennsylvania
all marine life shold be protected as wll as animals

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