Orphaned grizzly bears may not make it to summertime

Grizzly bear cubs are starving and alone. Act fast and donate $10 today to help protect wildlife and our planet before time runs out for vulnerable grizzlies! Dear Friend, Grizzly bear cubs are starving and alone. Act fast and donate $10 today to help protect wildlife and our planet before time runs out for vulnerable grizzlies! If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $10 immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate another amount]( A mama grizzly bear’s lifeless body lies limp in the snow. Her cub is now an orphan. And it will likely starve or freeze to death without her. Meanwhile, hunters are hiding in the trees waiting to take advantage of weak bears emerging from hibernation. That means the helpless, orphaned cub may even get caught in the crossfire of these merciless trophy hunters. [Don’t let another grizzly cub face the same fate. Donate $10 today and help protect wildlife and the planet before another grizzly dies.]( Sadly, these needless grizzly deaths could soon become commonplace. While grizzlies are currently protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), trophy hunters and private interests are working to chip away at these lifesaving provisions. If they succeed, grizzlies could face the same horrors that black bears are forced to endure as you read this: Trophy hunters are tracking down and targeting them across the country. They trap them with painful metal clamps. They release hunting dogs to track and terrorize bears before they are murdered.  Dismantling the ESA would let trophy hunters and Big Polluters kill more bears and take over their lands. All to turn a profit. With only 2,000 grizzlies remaining in the lower 48 states, we’re running out of time to save them. But it isn’t too late yet. Thanks to generous supporters like you, we still have a chance to make real change. Change that would help protect grizzlies and the lands they call home. But we’re up against the powerful trophy hunting lobby. And if we don’t act soon, we could lose grizzlies forever. Vulnerable grizzlies could disappear forever. Donate $10 now to help protect vulnerable wildlife and the planet! If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $10 immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate another amount]( Grizzly bears once numbered 50,000 in the continental U.S. But human impact decimated their population. Hunting, trapping, and habitat loss put grizzlies at serious risk. That’s why they received protections under the ESA. But these iconic animals are still recovering from these serious declines. They aren’t ready to lose their Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections. That’s why it’s such a big deal that trophy hunters and Big Polluters are working overtime to dismantle this bedrock environmental law. Why are Big Polluters joining forces with trophy hunters? Well, the ESA is one of our strongest tools to protect species and their habitats against mega-polluting, climate-wrecking, wildlife-killing industries and their allies -- and the attacks on this critical law prove that it’s working. But when the law weakens, our planet becomes more vulnerable to fossil fuel activity and other planet-destroying practices. We can’t let extremist politicians and greedy interests unleash even more ecological destruction on our fragile planet and precious species like grizzly bears! That’s why I need your help today. Grizzly bears are at serious risk of extinction if greedy, profit-driven interests get their way in this fight. But I know you won’t let that happen. Don’t let greedy interests wipe grizzlies off the face of the Earth. Donate $10 today and protect our wildlife and planet before it’s too late. If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $10 immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate another amount]( We’re running out of time, Friend. We’re seeing these attacks play out as you read this email: Montana and Wyoming already petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to strip grizzlies of their ESA protections. But grizzly bears aren’t bound by state lines. If they are delisted in even one state, a helpless grizzly -- even a cub -- could easily wander across state borders and be KILLED WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE.  If we’re going to turn things around for grizzlies before FWS answers these petitions this summer, we need help from generous supporters like you. Already, supporters like you have submitted thousands of comments urging our elected leaders to put an end to these vicious attacks against the ESA. Your membership gift today would take that action a step further and help us do everything we can to fight to strengthen rather than slash the ESA and protect our nation’s wildlife and our planet.   It's clear that trophy hunters and Big Polluters think it’s more important to kill for fun and put our planet in danger than protect vital species that roam our lands. All for the sake of profit. Plain and simple, the inhumane treatment of bears and their cubs can’t continue. But our nation’s wildlife don’t have voices of their own, Friend. That’s why they need you to be their voice today. So please -- join the fight for our planet and precious wildlife before they are lost forever, and make your $10 membership contribution today!  Bear cubs may soon be left to starve or freeze to death. Protect wildlife like bears and our planet and donate $10 today! 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