CALL TO ACTION: Save the Endangered Species Act

POSTCARDS (OR LETTERS):

Send a postcard to the following individuals:
- Your Two Senators (Find their contact info HERE; send to a DISTRICT office)
- Your Congressman or Congresswoman (Find contact info HERE, send to a DISTRICT office))
- Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (Department of Interior, 1849 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20240)
- Donald Trump (The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20500)

In your postcards, identify yourself as a constituent (include your city so they can verify). Write one to three sentences asking your member of Congress to oppose all bills that weaken or repeal the Endangered Species Act. Maybe draw a picture of an animal or plant.

International advocates can send a postcard to Trump and Secretary Zinke.

Recruit household members and friends to write postcards too. Members of Congress LOVE postcards from kids! Post photos of your postcards on Wildlife Needs More Than Luck Facebook event and we will end you a free Save the Endangered Species bumper sticker.

EMAIL: Contact forms for Senators HERE, for your Congressmen and women HERE, for Department of Interior HERE. Write, in your own words, why you want the Endangered Species Act to remain intact or copy and paste the following:

I write because I am concerned by the 11 or so bills pending in Congress right now which would weaken or repeal the Endangered Species Act. This law has saved countless species from extinction, including our national bird, the bald eagle. Further, it has a proven track record and process that should not be circumvented or short-circuited. We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction and need to preserve the best tool available to us to slow down the loss of species. Please fight to keep this bedrock of our environmental protection strong. 

TWEET: Tweet sheet is HERE

CALL: Find your Senators' phone numbers HERE and your Representative's phone numbers HERE. It is best to call one of the local offices, rather than the DC office. Tell the staff member who answers  that you want your legislator to oppose all efforts to weaken or repeal the Endangered Species Act. (** BONUS: save these numbers in your phone contacts to make it easier to call in the future)

If the staff member asks you which bills you are opposing, here is a list:

• S375 Amend ESA to establish procedure of approval of certain settlements
• S378 Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan Act
• S355 Achieve domestic independence by empowering states to control development and production of all forms of energy on all available federal land
• S164 A bill to delist wolves in Western Great Lakes, Wyoming
• S376 21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act
• S273 Greater Sage-Grouse Protection and Recovery Act
• S335 Bill to achieve domestic energy independency by empowering States to control development and production of all forms of energy on all available Federal land

• HR1273 21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act
• HR717 Listing Reform Act
• HR226 African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Conservation Act
• HR1274 State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act
• HR224 Polar Bean Conservation and Fairness Act
• HR424 Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017
• HR 527 Greater Sage Grouse Protection and Recovery Act
• HR1269 Sacramento Valley Water Storage and Restoration Act
• HR1106 Small Tracts Conveyance Act

FACEBOOK MESSAGES: Find your Senator's Facebook page HERE and Department of Interior's page HERE. Google your Representative's Facebook page. Leave a comment to an existing article saying the following:

I support the Endangered Species Act. Please oppose all efforts to weaken or repeal it. 

SIGN & SHARE THESE PETITIONS:

Endangered Species Coalition/Credo
EarthJustice
Change
Sierra Club
Wolf Conservation Center

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