WILD EARTH GUARDIANS is bringing to our attention truly concerning news about House Republicans efforts to pass legislation which would prohibit species listings and habitat conservation under the Endangered Species Act................They are looking to fund the USFW Service only if the funds directed to the Service are not utilized to list endangered species and to create critical habitat for these species...............INSANITY RUNS AMUCK IN OUR GOVERNMENT............WORSE THAN ANYTIME IN THE 50 YEARS I HAVE BEEN ON THE PLANET...........OUR PRESIDENT SHOWS NO GUTS IN FOLLOWING THROUGH ON HIS POSITIVE WORDS ABOUT LAND AND WILDLIFE ISSUES WHILE OUR NEW CONGRESS IS DAILY CRAFTING BILLS TO GUT 50 YEARS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GAINS(THOSE GAINS THROUGH BI-PARTISAN EFFORTS)

Tell Your Representative Not to Gut the ESA

The Republican majority in the House of Representatives is on the warpath. Their target? Our nation's most imperiled species. 

 In the latest of a series of attacks on imperiled wildlife in Congress, the House Appropriations Committee voted in favor of legislation that would prohibit species listings and habitat conservation under the Endangered Species Act. The bill is now scheduled to go before the entire House for approval. Tell your Representative now – do not pass this damaging bill.

House Republicans propose to fund the Fish and Wildlife Service only if those funds are not used to list imperiled species as endangered or threatened or to designate critical habitat pursuant to the Endangered Species Act. They want to shut down the listing program.

This bill is a blatant, wide-reaching attempt to strip away the environmental protections that safeguard our country's natural resources under the guise of fiscal responsibility.  The House of Representatives is not solving budget problems – they are creating environmental problems. And it will cost us in human health, clean air and water, and biodiversity.

Tell your Representatives that the vast majority of Americans support the Endangered Species Act, and we expect them to defend the act from these nefarious attacks. Along with restrictions on funding for imperiled species, the bill would prohibit judicial review of a reckless plan that would allow Wyoming wolves to be shot on sight. It would also prohibit review of possible wolf delisting in any state within the range of the Great Lakes wolf.

The bill would also slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.It includes legislative riders that would relax greenhouse gas regulations and restrictions on mountaintop removal, pesticide pollution in rivers and streams, and coal ash. It would even allow uranium mining in the Grand Canyon!

Given the backlog of hundreds of imperiled species waiting for federal protection, the Service needs more resources to combat the extinction crisis, not less.

Contact your Representative and demand that the current policy of giving handouts to polluters and special interests must be replaced with full funding for endangered species conservation. We need their commitment to following sound science and protecting our natural heritage.

For the Wild,


Taylor Jones
Endangered Species Advocate
WildEarth Guardians
tjones@wildearthguardians.org