Protect the Endangered Species Act

The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have proposed regulatory changes that would reverse many short-sighted, anti-science Trump-era rollbacks of protections of the Endangered Species Act.

As the world faces twin climate and biodiversity crises, these protections have never been more essential. Can we count on you to fight with us?

Tell FWS and NMFS to reverse Trump-era rollbacks of the ESA and work to fully restore ESA protections.

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To this day, the ESA is a success story and one of our nation’s most effective wildlife-protection laws – successfully preventing more than 99% of species under its care from going extinct, including the iconic grizzly bear and bald eagle.

Yet in 2019, the Trump Administration tried to rewrite this story, and targeted the ESA with short-sighted, anti-scientific rollbacks in a blatant attempt to eviscerate protections for the most imperiled species in our country.

But now, in response to a federal lawsuit, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have proposed revisions that would reverse some of those Trump-era rollbacks and get this story back on track.

As the world faces twin climate and biodiversity crises, these protections have never been more essential. They help to preserve functioning, intact ecosystems on which all life–including healthy people–depends. And with 1 million species worldwide at risk of extinction, we need bold steps to fully reverse efforts to undermine ESA protections and work to defend the law from future attacks. Can we count on you to fight with us?

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Subject Restore Endangered Species Protections

Dear Craig Aubrey (FWS) and Tanya Dobrzynski (NMFS):

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I support your proposed rules to reverse dangerous Trump-era rollbacks to Endangered Species Act protections for species, including:

- Strengthening key habitat safeguards to help address the onslaught of habitat destruction and climate change, key drivers of the biodiversity crisis

- Restoring common-sense default protections for threatened species, helping to prevent them from sliding further towards extinction

- Ensuring that listing decisions are based on science, not money, and making it easier to consider future threats to species

As the world faces twin climate and biodiversity crises, these protections have never been more essential. However, I am concerned that these proposals do not go far enough, and I urge you to fully restore the ESA’s protections, including reversing changes that allow the piecemeal destruction of critical habitat and limit the scope of review for federal actions that harm species.

They help to preserve functioning, intact ecosystems on which all life – including healthy people – depends. And with 1 million species worldwide at risk of extinction, we need bold steps to fully reverse efforts to undermine ESA protections and work to defend the law from future attacks.

Please, do everything in your power to reverse these dangerous Trump-era rollbacks and fully restore the Endangered Species Act protections to their historical strength.

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