Protect Wolves on National Forests

Under a new plan proposed by the State of Wyoming, wolves in Bridger Teton and other National Forests in Wyoming could be shot on sight.

Denning wolves are at risk. Wolf pups are at risk. And the very mission of conserving wildlife on our National Forests is at risk.

Tell President Obama and Secretary Vilsack, who oversees the Forest Service, to draw a line in the sand and oppose the shoot-on-sight plan for wolves on Bridger Teton and other National Forests in Wyoming.

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3,000 Wild Horses Need Your Help

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Violating their own protocol of waiting until mid-August (after the foaling season) to begin helicopter roundups of wild horses, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) started a Nevada roundup in the blazing July heat last summer, resulting in the deaths of at least 21 horses. Several other horses required treatment for painful colic and brain swelling due to dehydration and exhaustion.

Despite this tragedy, the BLM is planning to do early roundups again this July. Thousands of additional wild horses and burros--including newborn foals--are slated for removal in frightening and dangerous helicopter roundups in California, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah just weeks from now--paid for with the federal tax dollars.

Help stop this massacre of America’s wild horses! Contact your U.S. Representatives and Senators and urge them to:

1. Call on the Interior Department and President Obama to halt the BLM’s summer roundups; and
2. Use their appropriations authority to strip funding for this abusive practice while the National Academy of Sciences conducts its independent review of the program (to be completed by 2013).

Help Save Polar Bears

Due to climate change and habitat loss, polar bears could disappear off the face of the planet within our lifetimes. Polar bears need sea ice to hunt and survive, but sea ice is melting, forcing polar bears to swim longer distances just to find food. Their homes are also in danger due to oil and gas drilling that destroys essential polar bear habitat, displacing bears, and in some cases, causing mothers to abandon their cubs--who then perish.

These bears need our help to survive. Ask President Obama to protect bear habitat in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's coasts.

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