A new U.S. Federal bill, the Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005, would strip critical habitat protections for endangered species. ECO-Action: sign on-line petition to protect Endangered Species Act!

Date:   6/9/2005 2:03:22 AM ( 19 y ago)

This petition drive is sponsored by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

"Sign this petition today - tell Congress to stop trying to gut the Endangered Species Act! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/713864189?ltl=1117756049

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was one of the first species listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Long feared extinct, the bird clung to life in habitat protected in hopes of its recovery, and just last month the conservation community was rewarded with confirmed evidence of the bird's survival in the forested swamps of Arkansas.

But a new bill introduced by Representative Dennis Cardoza - the misnamed Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005 - would eliminate crucial protections for habitat that endangered species like the ivory-billed woodpecker need to both survive and recover.

Please act to oppose the Cardoza bill today! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/713864189?ltl=1117756049

The Cardoza bill abandons a fundamental goal of the Endangered Species Act - recovery of endangered species. Under this bill, we would lose the very protections that brought both the bald eagle and the Peregrine falcon back from the brink of extinction, and that allowed us to never lose hope for the Ivory-billed woodpecker.

Critical habitat is just that - it is habitat that is essential to both the survival and recovery of an endangered species. But the Cardoza bill aims to gut the meaning and definition of critical habitat. If we can no longer protect critical habitat, then we can no longer protect species themselves. By stripping wildlife habitat of critical protection, the Cardoza bill is essentially leaving our wildlife homeless, and dooming our most imperiled species to extinction.

Take action today - tell Congress to protect the Endangered Species Act! Sign this petition to send a letter to your Representative, and urge her/him to vote NO on H.R. 1299. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/713864189?ltl=1117756049

Thank you for helping to protect the Endangered Species Act!

-Rebecca,
Care2 and ThePetitionSite team
http://www.care2.com/go/z/rebecca"

Thank you!

Liora Leah




 

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