Friend, don’t leave orphaned bear cubs to die alone

Orphaned bear cubs are starving to death. Help protect vulnerable wildlife and the planet before it’s too late: Donate $10 today and have your gift MATCHED! Dear Friend, Orphaned bear cubs are starving to death. Help protect vulnerable wildlife and the planet before it’s too late: Donate $10 today and have your gift MATCHED! 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]( An innocent mama bear leaves the den to find food for her babies – only to be met by rapid-fire bullets piercing her skin. She lets out one final cry of anguish before thumping lifelessly to the ground. Her blood pools around her limp corpse, dyeing the forest floor red. Hiding in their den, her baby cubs are watching and trembling in fear. They helplessly gaze in horror at their mama’s mangled and disfigured carcass. How will these fragile baby bear cubs survive now that mama bear has been brutally shot to death by ruthless trophy hunters? [Don’t let another grizzly cub face this gruesome fate. Donate $10 today to protect vulnerable wildlife and our planet and have your gift MATCHED up to our $90,000 Earth Day goal before this chance expires at midnight!]( Friend, hunters could be decimating bear families like this one as you read this email. Trophy hunters are working to violently massacre harmless mama bears, leaving their orphaned cubs to die of starvation or hypothermia, often even targeting and killing the harmless cubs themselves. And hunters are working tirelessly to make sure barbaric trophy hunting of precious grizzly bears is COMPLETELY LEGAL. But trophy hunters and private interests want more. Together with extremist politicians, they are chomping at the bit to remove widespread protections for grizzly bears. This would leave even more threatened grizzlies vulnerable to inhumane hunting methods. With only 2,000 grizzlies remaining in the lower 48 states, we’re running out of time to protect 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 threatened wildlife like grizzlies, the lands they call home, and our planet. But we’re up against the powerful trophy hunting lobby and their Big Polluter allies. And if we don’t act soon, we could lose grizzlies forever. Vulnerable grizzlies are in serious trouble. Donate $10 now and have your gift MATCHED to help protect our 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 them to just 2% of their historic population. Hunting, trapping, and habitat loss put grizzlies at serious risk. That’s why they received protections under the Endangered Species Act. But grizzlies haven’t recovered yet and are still struggling to survive. Their habitat is continuing to shrink. Their food sources are increasingly hard to find. And climate change is driving them closer to the brink. As a result, fewer and fewer cubs are surviving to reach adulthood. These vulnerable bears can’t afford to lose their lifesaving protections – the only things keeping them from total extinction. Still, lawmakers, trophy hunters, and Big Polluters are pooling their resources to launch an all-out attack against these precious animals. If they succeed in removing the ESA protections and driving grizzlies out of their lands, Big Oil & Gas can swoop in and open crucial grizzly habitat for mining, logging, and other planet-harming practices. Not to mention, it’s not enough for hunters to eliminate grizzlies from our planet. They insist on torturing these poor animals using brutal hunting methods. In 2022, Idaho Fish and Game found a female grizzly with 12 bullets in her. She was shot an estimated 40 times. No animal deserves this fate, Friend. And without protections, more and more grizzlies could be staring down the barrel of a trophy hunter’s gun. This Earth Day, protect threatened wildlife like bears and our planet from greedy interests before we run out of time. Rush your $10 donation now and it will be matched! 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]( Without grizzlies, our planet’s ecosystems would suffer. These intelligent animals keep prey populations in check. That allows other plant and animal species to thrive. What’s more, grizzlies roam far and wide, enriching soils and transporting vital nutrients as they go. But it doesn’t end there -- scientists are continuously discovering more and more ways grizzlies play an important part in their ecosystems. That’s why grizzlies must be protected before it’s too late for them. And that means protecting the Endangered Species Act. These vital laws don’t just protect bears, though. They provide critical protection for America’s iconic animal species. They’re also some of our most effective safeguards in the fight to protect our public lands and curb catastrophic climate change. Yet, trophy hunters and Big Polluters think it’s more important to kill for fun and put our planet in danger. All for the sake of profit. Plain and simple, the inhumane treatment of bears and their cubs can’t continue. One bullet doesn’t just kill a mother bear. It means her cubs will be left to die as well. And if bears are wiped out, their lands will be ravaged for profit, too. This Earth Day, I urge you to join our fight so that wildlife and the planet can stand a chance against greedy interests that are only interested in profit. Today is about protecting our shared Earth – and that includes the wildlife we share this planet with. Thanks to a generous group of donors, every gift today will be MATCHED dollar for dollar – up to our $90,000 Earth Day goal. That means your membership support to Friends of the Earth will go twice as far to fuel our work against private interests who want to remove protections for vulnerable species, wreak havoc on their environments, and are contributing to ecological destruction on our planet. So please, join the fight for our planet and precious wildlife before we lose vital species like grizzlies, and make your $10 membership contribution today! Bear cubs may soon be left to starve or freeze to death. Act now in honor of Earth Day and donate $10 to make TWICE the impact for our planet! 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