Urgent Save Polar Bears, Reverse Bush's 11th-Hour Rules

Wildlife Alert
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Victims of Bush/Cheney?

Polar Bear Family (Kenneth R. Whitten, National Geographic)
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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and other allies of Big Oil are opposing legislative provisions that could help save America's polar
bears and other threatened and endangered animals from extinction.

Take action for polar bears
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Urge your Senators to reverse the Bush Administration's awful endangered species rules.
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The Senate could vote on legislative provisions to reverse the Bush rules in the next few days, so please help us send 35,000
messages by Monday.

Polar Bears (R. Nicklin, National Geographic)
Fast Fact: Polar bears could disappear from America in the next 50 years.

Dear Andrew,

The Bush/Cheney Administration has been gone for more than a month, but their eleventh-hour regulatory shenanigans are still
threatening our polar bears and other threatened and endangered wildlife.

Before leaving office, the Bush/Cheney Administration rammed through a regulatory change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that
threatens efforts to save polar bears, wolves, manatees and nearly 1,400 other species from extinction.

Speak out for America's vanishing polar bears and other threatened and endangered animals. Urge your Senators to reverse the Bush
Administration's awful endangered species rules.

The Bush/Cheney regulatory changes eliminated scientific review by the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries
Service of projects that could harm imperiled wildlife. These changes also block important conservation measures under the
Endangered Species Act to help the polar bear.

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed its omnibus spending bill, including provisions that would enable Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar to reverse the Bush Administration's awful endangered species proposals. Unfortunately, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski --
backed by her Governor, Sarah Palin -- and others in the Senate are now working furiously to strip these provisions from the
Senate's version of the omnibus bill.

Please take action now. Urge your Senators to stand up to Murkowski and help reverse the Bush/Cheney assault on protections for
polar bears and other imperiled animals.

The Senate is expected to vote on the omnibus spending bill in the next few days, and we need your help to show broad support for
real action to protect polar bears and other imperiled animals. Please take action today and help us send at least 35,000 messages
to the Senate by Monday.

If Murkowski and Palin are successful, polar bears and hundreds of other imperiled animals could be denied important help under the
Endangered Species Act -- protections that are increasingly important as animals like polar bears struggle to survive the effects of
global warming.

Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that as many as two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be lost in the next 50
years -- including America's dwindling polar bear population.

Polar bears need our help today. Please send a message to your Senators right now and urge them to ensure that polar bears get the
help they need to avoid extinction.

A Senate vote on this bill could come soon, so please take action right now to help protect our polar bears and other wildlife.

With Gratitude,

Rodger Schlickeisen, President
Defenders of Wildlife

P.S. Defenders of Wildlife is fighting hard in Congress, in the courts and on the ground to save our polar bears. Please consider
adopting a polar bear mom and cub to help support these and other vital efforts to protect threatened and endangered species.
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