Wednesday March 25, 2009, 8:24 pm
Targeting: Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar

Started by: Endangered Species Coalition

Time is running out to save the polar bear and other endangered species. As their sea ice habitat disappears, polar bears are starving and drowning, and mothers and cubs are dying as their snow dens collapse on them due to a warming climate. In addition, pollution from oil and gas drilling threatens to destroy what's left of the polar bear's disappearing habitat.

In their last days, the Bush Administration weakened protections for the polar bear and other endangered species. We have a few weeks to restore their protections under the Endangered Species Act.

Congress passed a bill that gives the Obama administration 60 days to overturn the Bush administration's regulations that weakened the Endangered Species Act and eliminated essential protections for the polar bear. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar must take this critically important step to restore scientific integrity at the Department of Interior.

The fate of the polar bears and other endangered species relies on their Endangered Species Act protections being restored. Please sign the petition to Secretary Salazar to save the polar bear and other endangered species.

This campaign ends on May 08.

Sign Letter!

Please restore protections for the polar bear and other endangered species

Dear Secretary Salazar,

Thank you for your commitment to protect our environment and to reestablish scientific integrity in the Department of Interior. I urge you to act immediately to restore protections for the polar bear and other endangered species.

I strongly oppose the Bush administration's regulations that weaken Endangered Species Act and eliminate essential protections for the polar bear. Please overturn the regulations under Section 7 and Section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act, which reduce protections for polar bears, remove scientific consultations, and ignore global warming as a threat to our nation's wildlife.

I urge you to revoke these regulations immediately, within the 60-day window provided by Congress for their removal. Please take this critically important step in restoring scientific integrity at the Department of Interior.

The Endangered Species Act is a safety net for our nation's wildlife, fish and plants on the brink of extinction. Please restore protections for the polar bear and other endangered species.

[Your name here]

Wednesday March 25, 2009, 9:31 pm
Salazar has got the blood of many wildlife animals on his hand and I told him so. I am so angry that our voices aren't being heard. He needs to resign or step down. He is the worst Interior Secretary the US has ever had.

Wednesday March 25, 2009, 11:41 pm
Thanks, Tom for these great letters on endangered species. I had not seen these before. Noted and signed with comment.

Thursday March 26, 2009, 3:24 am
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well being of a person or an animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way..."
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929 - 1968

Thursday March 26, 2009, 4:47 am
Action taken and noted with thanks Tom.

Your email has been sent!

Thursday March 26, 2009, 6:32 am
Noted, signed and sent. Thanks Tom

Thursday March 26, 2009, 7:05 am
Thanks Tom, Signed at Change.org/ this is a special and important cause.

Thursday March 26, 2009, 1:26 pm
SIGNED AND NOTED.

Thursday March 26, 2009, 1:44 pm
signed and noted, thank u!

~sarie

Thursday March 26, 2009, 1:51 pm
signed

Thursday March 26, 2009, 4:19 pm
SIGNED ALL 3 AND NOW WE NEED TO START A MAJOR FIGHT FOR THE WOLVES IN ALASKA AND THE LOWER 48. THANKS TOM, A MAN AFTER MY HEART

Thursday March 26, 2009, 6:38 pm
Thanks, Tom, sure hope we can save these majestic Polar Bears. All signed and noted too.

Thursday March 26, 2009, 8:52 pm
signed

It we keep waiting and not making changes it is going to be late, and the polar bears will be gone. It is time to act now not keep debating the issue.

Thursday March 26, 2009, 9:40 pm
Done

Saturday March 28, 2009, 1:00 pm
Thanks Tom. noted and action already taken.