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Your Signature Needed: GOP’s latest attacks on wildlife hidden in the new appropriations bill

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    DONATE URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Entire wildlife families are in DANGER – Congress is advancing a disastrous bill that could REMOVE life-saving protections from our most at-risk species! TAKE ACTION NOW >> Vulnerable wildlife across America is under urgent threat. A new GOP-led House budget bill with sweeping attacks on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the agencies responsible for defending our nation’s most at-risk animals is currently moving forward. Hidden throughout the legislation are harmful anti-wildlife riders that would STRIP AWAY federal protections from gray wolves, BLOCK grizzly bear recovery, WEAKEN safeguards for beloved creatures like northern spotted owls and northern long-eared bats, and REVIVE destructive wetland permitting that threatens species like the Florida panther and frosted flatwoods salamander. Weakening wildlife protections puts our nation’s most vulnerable species and their habitats at even greater risk while they’re a...