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the
ESA!







The Issue:

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is the most important federal wildlife law that protects manatees and other endangered and threatened species of animals and plants from extinction. Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) has drafted a bill that would radically gut this landmark law that has, for more than 30 years, saved many species from forever disappearing from the earth. We need your help to preserve the ESA and its current strengths.

According to the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), Pombo’s draft bill, cynically entitled Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005, is “an anti-recovery bill which will not only kill endangered species, it will kill the Endangered Species Act itself.” In addition to completely repealing the Endangered Species Act in 2015, CBD determined that the bill would immediately:

  • Eliminate the requirement to recover endangered species
  • Reduce protection of threatened species and critical habitat areas
  • Politicize and eliminate scientific decision-making
  • Eliminate independent federal oversight
  • Bury federal biologists under mountains of useless paperwork
  • Bankrupt the federal agencies by diverting conservation funds to pay landowners and corporation to obey the law
  • Encourage an increase in industry litigation

We must start working NOW to prevent Rep. Pombo’s draft bill from ever becoming law.

What You Can Do:

Please call, write, or send an e-mail to your U.S. congressional members. Tell them you support the ESA and that you oppose Representative Pombo’s bill that would weaken protections for our nation’s endangered species.

On the Web: You can find contact information for your senators and representative at www.congress.org. Just click on "U.S. Congress" in the left-hand menu, type in your zip code, and click Go!

Phone: Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. Give them your zip code and ask for the phone numbers for your senators and representative.

Get More Info:

Read more about this issue at the Endangered Species Coalition web site: www.stopextinction.org. (SMC is a member of the coalition.)

You can also go to CBD’s website at www.biologicaldiversity.org for a thorough critique of Pombo’s bill.


Thank you for your help on this most important issue!




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