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ACTION ALERT: Vote NO to Sea Otter Fur Trade! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: sea otters, endangered, protection, threatened, fur trade, cruelty )

Simone
- 2 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Alaska Representative Donald Young has introduced a bill (H.R. 2714), to restart the fur trade of northern sea otters. The International Union for Conservation of Nature still lists the sea otter as an endangered species,
39 comments
ACTION ALERT: Stop The Bird Killing Bill! PLEASE SIGN ! (Born Free USA)
Animals  (tags: birds, migratory bird treaty, birds, threatened, cormorant protection )

Simone
- 5 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Your help is needed to defeat a bill that flies in the face of true conservation: "The Cormorant Management and Natural Resources Act" (H.R. 3074) Introduced by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the bill would amend the Migratory Bird Treaty
33 comments
ACTION ALERT: Save Songbirds in Canada! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: songbirds, threatened, canadian government, endangered proteciton, conservation )

Simone
- 8 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The eastern loggerhead shrike is one of the fastest-declining bird species in North America. These tiny songbirds might look sweet, but they hunt like birds of prey, using their beak to impale their future meals (typically large insects) on thorn
40 comments
ACTION ALERT: Don't Drown Out Dolphins' Voices! PLEASE TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: dolphins, threatened, deafening, testing, destructive, legalisation )

Simone
- 9 days ago - act.oceana.org
Underwater seismic testing sounds like dynamite going off outside your home, over and over again. The sound carries for thousands of miles, and marine animals can't escape it. Dolphins and whales might beach themselves to get away.
24 comments
ACTION ALERT: Caribou Calves Face Danger in Arctic Alaska! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: cairobu calves, wild animals blm, arctic alaska, threatened, oil companies, endangered )

Simone
- 20 days ago - secure3.convio.net
The Bureau of Land Management is deciding what to do with 23 million acres of public land in western Arctic Alaska where caribou and other wildlife live. The BLM could choose to preserve the caribou's habitat here in the far north
46 comments
ACTION ALERT: Stop the Polar Bear Rug Trade! PLEASE TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: polar bears, threatened, disappearing, conservation, wildlife, protection )

Simone
- 24 days ago - all-creatures.org
Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take a stand for polar bears and champion these urgently needed trade restrictions that will provide additional protections under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
20 comments
ACTION ALERT: Whale Sanctuary Threatened! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: whales, sanctuary, threatened, hawaii, hight voltage electrical cables, protection )

Simone
- 25 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Plans are being made to put a high voltage electical cable in a whale sanctuary in Hawaii!!!
31 comments
ACTION ALERT: Protect Mexican Gray Wolves From Extinction! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: mexican wolves, disappearing, killed, endangered, threatened, survival, protection, conservation )

Simone
- 42 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In March, a Mexican gray wolf cub who survived last summer's largest fire in Arizona history was found dead -- shot in cold blood. With only 58 endangered Mexican gray wolves, or "lobos," in the wilds of New Mexico and Arizona.
129 comments
ACTION ALERT: Stop the Wolf Kill Bill! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: wolves, maglined, threatened, massacre, survival, protection, conservation, legalisation )

Simone
- 93 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Like all native wildlife, wolves have a right to survive in Oregon. The Oregon Cattlemen's Association wants to kill wolves and the law won't let them. Now they want to change the law.
14 comments
ACTION ALERT: Save Lady Marie Bear! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: therapy dog, lady marie bear, seized, death sentence, threatened, outrage )

Simone
- 94 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
She is the eyes of the blind, the healer of suffering, abused children; yet her own life now hangs in the balance. The story of Lady Marie Bear as tragic as it is infuriating. In November, an officer from the Nelson County Animal Control
167 comments
ACTION ALERT: Help Save Polar Bears and Other Arctic Wildlife ! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: polar bears, wildlife, wild animals, threatened, protection, drilling, conservation legalisation )

Simone
- 107 days ago - theanimalrescuesite.com
Right now, some of America's last wild polar bear mothers and their cubs are denning in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
28 comments
ACTION ALERT: Tell Government - Wind Power Does Not Need To Endanger Eagles! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: bald eagles, nests, homes, threatened, golden eagles, protection )

Simone
- 114 days ago - secure2.convio.net
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is planning to award the very first permit for the "take" - killing or disturbance - of eagles at West Butte Wind Power's proposed wind turbine site in central Oregon. There are several golden and bald eagle nest
15 comments
ACTION ALERT: Endangered Species Under Attack! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: endangered, survival, protection, conservation, congress, endangered species act, threatened )

Simone
- 161 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Endangered Species Act is once again under attack. Right-wingers in Congress are spreading misinformation about the Act, including that it's "costing jobs" (it isn't) and impeding true recovery efforts, a claim which blatantly disregards the facts.
52 comments
ACTION ALERT: Halt Oil Exploration in Grey Whale Habitat! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: gray whales, conservation, threatened, disappearing, survival, oil exploration, habitat, homes. protection, legalisation )

Simone
- 164 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Western North Pacific gray whale is currently under threat of extinction and now Sakhalin Energy plans to build an oil platform by the feeding grounds of the Western gray whale, threatening their survival.
25 comments
ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress: Don't Slash Wildlife Conservation ! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: congress, marine mammals, wildlife, habitat, homes, threatened, survival protection, legalisation )

Simone
- 166 days ago - therainforestsite.com
Congress is now formulating a spending bill for the federal government -- and it's not looking good for wildlife. The House of Representatives has slashed funding for the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, denying endangered sea turtles vital
17 comments
 
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