A bloody bear massacre -- they didn't stand a chance

These bears had no chance. Fight back for our remaining bears and the planet before it’s too late: donate $10 or more and help us reach our $6,200 goal before midnight tonight! Dear Friend, These bears had no chance. Fight back for our remaining bears and the planet before it’s too late: donate $10 or more and help us reach our $6,200 goal before midnight tonight! 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]( Bullets rain down from a helicopter, and a scared bear cub stumbles on his mama’s carcass. Confused as to why she isn’t moving, he stumbles back and falls on his dead sibling. He looks around and sees a slaughter. A shocking 94 bears were gunned down in this massacre that took place last year in Alaska. [The cycle of slaughter could get worse: make your donation of $10 or more to protect vulnerable wildlife and our planet before it's too late and help us reach our $6,200 goal.]( If that wasn’t bad enough, countless orphaned cubs were left defenseless without their mamas, doomed to die from starvation, cold, or attacks from other predators. All because the Alaska Board and Game – a group that has no scientists – ordered this “hunt” to boost caribou populations, providing more animals for trophy hunters to kill. Extremist politicians are currently teaming up with the hunting lobby and other Big Polluters in an aggressive effort to REMOVE critical federal protections for grizzly bears listed under the Endangered Species Act. Without these life-saving ESA protections to rein in reckless hunters and prevent the bloody massacre of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states, we could soon lose this treasured species forever. Will you fight for threatened wildlife and our planet today? Make your $10 contribution now to help us reach our $6,200 goal before midnight tonight. 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]( Grizzlies are struggling to survive. Their habitat is shrinking. 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. And adult bears are dying at alarming rates, too. 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 – now their numbers plummeted to just 2,000 in the lower 48. That’s why they received protections under the Endangered Species Act. But soon, things could get even worse for grizzlies. States in the northern Rockies are working to remove ESA protections for these threatened animals. If they succeed, trophy hunters could be allowed to kill grizzlies indiscriminately, and with no consequences. And once grizzlies are driven out of their lands, Big Polluters will swoop in. They have hopes to open these lands up for mining, logging, and other planet-harming practices. As if that wasn’t enough, removing protections for grizzlies will make them vulnerable to some of the most gruesome hunting practices we’ve seen. Just last year, 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. But without protections, more and more grizzlies could be staring down the barrel of a trophy hunter’s gun. Protect bears and the planet from greedy interests before the loss is too great. Rush your $10 donation now! 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 can’t afford for grizzlies to lose their protections. What you may not know is that grizzlies help keep our planet healthy! 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 soil 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. Bears must be protected at all costs. 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. I need you in this fight if bears and the planet are going to stand a chance. Your membership support to Friends of the Earth today will allow us to take a stand against private interests who want to hunt down vulnerable species like bears, wreak havoc on their environments, and are contributing to ecological destruction on our planet. [Join the fight for our planet and precious bears before they are hunted to extinction, and make your $10 membership contribution before midnight tonight!]( Bear cubs may soon be left to starve to death without their mamas. Protect them and our planet and donate $10 today! 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]( Standing with you, Raena Garcia Senior fossil fuels and lands campaigner, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA PO Box 7010 Merrifield, VA 22116-7010 1-877-843-8687 [Contact us]( Email Preferences: [Click here to unsubscribe]( Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org Connect: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Flickr]( © 2024, Friends of the Earth. All Rights Reserved. [supporter]