Target:Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Sponsored by:Care2
The ribbon seal's Arctic habitat is rapidly melting because of global warming -- but President Obama's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has so far upheld President Bush's refusal to list them as threatened or endangered.
When they're born, ribbon seal pups can't swim -- nor can they survive the icy cold waters of the Arctic until they've formed a layer of blubber. So ribbon seal mothers give birth to and nurse their pups on the sea ice, until the pups' soft white hair (called languo) sheds and they naturally form their layer of blubber.
But with global warming comes melting sea ice in the Bering and Chukchi Seas -- and by extension, the disappearance of the habitat they need to reproduce. Only 200,000 of the ribbon seals remain globally, so they need federal threatened or endangered protection immediately!
Urge Dr. Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA, to reverse the Bush administration decision and list the ribbon seal as threatened or endangered!
10:23 am PST, Nov 21,Loris Caldero, Massachusetts
WE ARE LOSING ICE TO GLOBAL WARMING, HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THE SEALS CAN GO ON WITHOUT ICE, SAVE THEM NOW, WE NEED TO DO ALL WE CAN. The foodchain doesn't start at the grocery store and end at the toilet. Dear Dr. Lubchenco , please do something about the fate of these Ribbon Seals , they can't talk for themselves ,it is obvious by the global warming problem that they are struggling to just stay alive ,please don't just sit on your hands and wait for someone else to step up to the plate for these seals , as head of the NOAA ,you are in the perfect position to make a positive difference for these creatures.
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8:24 am PST, Nov 21,Walter Toporek, Iowa
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7:14 am PST, Nov 21,Dave Rothwell, United Kingdom
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6:46 am PST, Nov 21,Katherine Babiak, New York
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9:50 pm PST, Nov 20,Soo Thacker, Alaska
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3:05 pm PST, Nov 20,Janine Boguslawski, New York
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1:38 pm PST, Nov 20,Heather Burcham, Arkansas
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12:26 pm PST, Nov 20,Kelly Oeyen, Belgium
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12:03 pm PST, Nov 20,Maria N Galvis, Colombia
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12:01 pm PST, Nov 20,Susana Lax, Florida
Please put them on the endangered list, they are god's creatures and we NEED to step up and help them out!!!
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11:34 am PST, Nov 20,Maureen Sloan, Wisconsin
Please put them on the endangered list, they are god's creatures and we NEED to step up and help them out!!! DO THE RIGHT THING, NOW!!
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11:16 am PST, Nov 20,Carmen Rosas, Mexico
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10:27 am PST, Nov 20,Marvin George, Arizona
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9:52 am PST, Nov 20,Lulu Hermans, Belgium
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9:13 am PST, Nov 20,Kelly Cirone, Missouri
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9:04 am PST, Nov 20,Akshay Khullar, India
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7:41 am PST, Nov 20,Stephen Weatherby, Georgia
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7:27 am PST, Nov 20,Katie Thicke, Canada
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7:25 am PST, Nov 20,Katarzyna Gawron, Poland
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7:24 am PST, Nov 20,Linda Isham, New Jersey
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7:13 am PST, Nov 20,Ineke Top, Netherlands
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6:49 am PST, Nov 20,Thomas Thirion, Arizona
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5:18 am PST, Nov 20,Bogdan Dryomin, Russian Federation
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2:29 am PST, Nov 20,Merissa Hatcher, Kentucky
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6:56 pm PST, Nov 19,Brande Pickerel, Washington
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4:45 pm PST, Nov 19,Ronda O'Bryant, Florida
If we don't care to save these adorable creatures...what do we care about?
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3:19 pm PST, Nov 19,Name not displayed, South Carolina
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11:14 am PST, Nov 19,Kimberly Kammeraad, Washington
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10:00 am PST, Nov 19,Anibal Nuevo, Spain
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7:10 am PST, Nov 19,John Sedia, Pennsylvania
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6:56 am PST, Nov 19,Lu Metal, Italy
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6:19 am PST, Nov 19,Sonja Gay, France
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12:09 am PST, Nov 19,Agnes Hall, Australia
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11:21 pm PST, Nov 18,Rachel Ozowski, Wisconsin
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7:58 pm PST, Nov 18,Desiree Gonzalez, Wyoming
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6:56 pm PST, Nov 18,Michael Carney, New Jersey
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5:54 pm PST, Nov 18,Davira Shain, Hawaii
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3:09 pm PST, Nov 18,Karisa Cotter, Arkansas
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2:55 pm PST, Nov 18,Achmad Chadran, Massachusetts
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2:22 pm PST, Nov 18,Alesia Febus, New York
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11:14 am PST, Nov 18,Tom Girouard, Florida
Dear Dr. Lubchenco , please do something about the fate of these Ribbon Seals , they can't talk for themselves ,it is obvious by the global warming problem that they are struggling to just stay alive ,please don't just sit on your hands and wait for someone else to step up to the plate for these seals , as head of the NOAA ,you are in the perfect position to make a positive difference for these creatures.
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4:55 am PST, Nov 18,Mike Cohn, Michigan
The foodchain doesn't start at the grocery store and end at the toilet.
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1:46 am PST, Nov 18,Evelyn Milburn, Texas
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10:33 pm PST, Nov 17,Christopher Bail, California
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10:18 pm PST, Nov 17,Debra Hunter, New York
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12:38 pm PST, Nov 17,Candice Salmon, Texas
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12:10 pm PST, Nov 17,Claudia Rusconi, Argentina
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10:48 am PST, Nov 17,Roger Hannah, Illinois
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10:06 am PST, Nov 17,Andrew Strong, Indiana
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8:58 am PST, Nov 17,Andrea Gibson, Massachusetts
WE ARE LOSING ICE TO GLOBAL WARMING, HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THE SEALS CAN GO ON WITHOUT ICE, SAVE THEM NOW, WE NEED TO DO ALL WE CAN.
