Post by eaz35173 on Sept 20, 2017 20:21:09 GMT -5
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IFAW launches #OneActForAll to protect the ESA
Carson Barylak, Campaigns Officer, IFAW Washington D.C.
By: Carson Barylak
Posted: Sep 20 2017
With the support of over two dozen celebrity advocates, IFAW is taking a stand to protect the US Endangered Species Act (ESA). Together we are launching the #OneActForAll campaign—and we need your help.
The ESA is the gold standard when it comes to saving wildlife from extinction, but some special interest groups hate it because it shields imperiled animals and plant species from their most destructive practices. These opponents have allies in Washington and money to burn. Accordingly, congressional attacks on the ESA have been introduced at an alarming rate in recent years.
Under the guise of “streamlining,” “modernizing,” and “reforming” the Act’s wildlife conservation mechanisms, these anti-environment measures target iconic species like the gray wolf, strip protections form imperiled animals abroad, and cut out the critical roles that scientists, federal agencies, courts, and the public play in implementing and enforcing the Act.
These shortsighted policy proposals ignore the ESA’s overwhelming record of success in saving listed species, as well as the fact that protecting species pays dividends in ecosystem services and biodiversity. Anti-ESA bills disregard the principle that removing protections from a keystone species—like the gray wolf—means initiating an ecologically devastating chain reaction, robbing future generations of the world’s iconic wildlife.
IFAW relies on the ESA to protect species across the globe, from African lions to pangolins. The Act benefits wildlife and people alike; it truly is #OneActForAll of us.
If the Endangered Species Act falls, we all fall. I hope you will join me in asking Congress to do the right thing—protect the ESA.
--CB
Visit oneactforall.org to learn more about the ESA and the species it protects around the world. Follow the site’s instructions to contact your members of Congress and urge them to defend the ESA.
IFAW launches #OneActForAll to protect the ESA
Carson Barylak, Campaigns Officer, IFAW Washington D.C.
By: Carson Barylak
Posted: Sep 20 2017
With the support of over two dozen celebrity advocates, IFAW is taking a stand to protect the US Endangered Species Act (ESA). Together we are launching the #OneActForAll campaign—and we need your help.
The ESA is the gold standard when it comes to saving wildlife from extinction, but some special interest groups hate it because it shields imperiled animals and plant species from their most destructive practices. These opponents have allies in Washington and money to burn. Accordingly, congressional attacks on the ESA have been introduced at an alarming rate in recent years.
Under the guise of “streamlining,” “modernizing,” and “reforming” the Act’s wildlife conservation mechanisms, these anti-environment measures target iconic species like the gray wolf, strip protections form imperiled animals abroad, and cut out the critical roles that scientists, federal agencies, courts, and the public play in implementing and enforcing the Act.
These shortsighted policy proposals ignore the ESA’s overwhelming record of success in saving listed species, as well as the fact that protecting species pays dividends in ecosystem services and biodiversity. Anti-ESA bills disregard the principle that removing protections from a keystone species—like the gray wolf—means initiating an ecologically devastating chain reaction, robbing future generations of the world’s iconic wildlife.
IFAW relies on the ESA to protect species across the globe, from African lions to pangolins. The Act benefits wildlife and people alike; it truly is #OneActForAll of us.
If the Endangered Species Act falls, we all fall. I hope you will join me in asking Congress to do the right thing—protect the ESA.
--CB
Visit oneactforall.org to learn more about the ESA and the species it protects around the world. Follow the site’s instructions to contact your members of Congress and urge them to defend the ESA.
