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Most actions are open to all U.S. residents. We will indicate if an action is open to international activists or is restricted to residents of a particular state or region.
Speak out for Polar Bears and Lower Gas PricesDeadline: 09/01/2008Fight oil speculation and drilling that threatens our polar bears. |
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Help us fight to protect Hatteras!Support science over special interests. Take action now to let your elected officials know that you oppose legislation to turn back the clock on Cape Hatteras. |
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Help Save Cerulean Warblers and Other Neotropical BirdsDeadline: 12/21/2008Urge your Representative to co-sponsor the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act. |
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Polar Bears vs. PoliticsSee if your Senators support real action to address global warming -- and then send a message to let them know you're paying attention. |
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Boreal Birds Need Your HelpDeadline: 11/01/2008Urge Canadian officials to protect the country's boreal forest, sometimes called North America's Bird Nursery |
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Fighting For Your "Rights" in CongressUrge your Senators to support The Ship Strike Reduction Act of 2008 -- vital legislation to protect struggling right whales. |
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Help End A Bear Poaching PlagueUrge your Representative to sign on as a cosponsor to the Bear Protection Act (H.R. 5534) -- a bill that would help save America's bears. |
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Thank Senator CrapoID residents only - Thank Senator Crapo for leading the fight to secure vital funding to safeguard imperiled species protect national wildlife refuges. |
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Speak Out for Yellowstone Bison!Write to the Montana Promotion Division -- the state's tourism officials -- and speak out for sensible wildlife management of these American icons!Latest Update |
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Speak Out Against The Slaughter of Yellowstone BisonMT residents only - Write to Montana's Governor and speak out for sensible wildlife management of these American icons!Latest Update |
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Victory for Red Knots in New Jersey!NJ residents only - Send a message to your state legislators and to Governor Corzine to thank them for passing legislation to continue a ban on horseshoe crab harvesting in New Jersey to help save the red knot from extinction. |
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Protect the Refuge, Reject Big OilUrge your Senators to reject drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and support permanent protections for this special place. |
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Support a National Wolf Recovery PlanHelp ensure a lasting future for wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies and provide a needed boost for wolf recovery and management efforts in the Southwest, Northeast and Pacific Northwest. |
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AZ & NM Residents: Speak Up for Southwest Wolves!AZ & NM Residents Only - Southwest wolves are struggling to survive: the latest population count confirms only 4 breeding pairs, and 52 wolves total, in the wild! Urge your members of Congress to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves |
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Speak Up for Southwest Wolves!Southwest wolves are struggling to survive: the latest population count confirms only 4 breeding pairs, and 52 wolves total, in the wild! Sign the petition to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves |
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Protect Wildlife at Our Borders!Over a quarter of the U.S.-Mexico border runs through national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas -- important habitat that jaguars, wolves, ocelots, Sonoran pronghorns, burrowing owls and other imperiled species need to survive.Latest Update |
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Black-Footed Ferrets Return to Kansas!On December 17, 2007, two dozen endangered black-footed ferret kits were reintroduced on private lands in the heart of western Kansas. Send a message to officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and thank them for listening to our comments and bringing black-footed ferrets back to Kansas. |
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Urge Your Senators to Co-Sponsor the Global Warming Wildlife Survival ActUrge your Senators to co-sponsor the Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act (S. 2204), legislation to protect wildlife from the impacts of global warming. |
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Thank Sen. Whitehouse for Supporting the Global Warming Wildlife Survival ActRhode Island Residents Only - Thank Senator Whitehouse for introducing the Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act, a bill to help save wildlife threatened by global warming. |
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Thank Sen. Boxer for Supporting the Global Warming Wildlife Survival ActCalifornia Residents Only - Thank Senator Barbara Boxer for co-sponsoring the Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act, a bill to help save wildlife threatened by global warming. |
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Take the Watch Out for Wildlife PledgeAn estimated 1.5 million animals are hit on U.S. roads, and wildlife-vehicle collisions are a major threat to endangered Florida panthers and other animals. Help save wildlife and prevent accidents... Take our Watch Out for Wildlife pledge! |
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Help Save Dolphins and Promote International Ocean ConservationRatifying the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- a 25 year-old treaty that virtually every other developed, ocean-going nation has already joined -- is an important step in protecting dolphins and other marine wildlife and in restoring America's place in the world. |
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Support the PAW Act -- End Alaska's Aerial Hunting ProgramTell your Representative to sign on as a cosponsor to the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act to put an end to Alaska's brutal aerial hunting program -- and prevent programs like it from spreading. |
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Tell Alaska Gov. Palin to end aerial hunting of wolves!Watch our video and send a message to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin urging her to end the state's unfounded aerial hunting program immediately. |
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Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Forever!Urge your Senators and Representative to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) and permanent protections for this special place. |
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Outrageous: Gov. Palin's $400,000 Propaganda PlanAlaska Residents Only - Tell Governor Palin that you oppose the Alaska state-funded campaign to support aerial gunning. |
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Save Great Cats and Rare CanidsUrge Congress to support on-the-ground conservation to save snow leopards, lions, Ethiopian wolves and other imperiled great cats and rare canids. |
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Keep Tuna Safe for Families & for DolphinsSend a message to the Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration urging them to improve mercury testing so we can keep tuna safe for our families and for dolphins. |
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