Trophy hunters may soon slaughter mama grizzlies and their cubs – help protect them

Dear Friend, Grizzly cubs may not make it past spring. Protect them from trophy hunters and make your $27 gift today. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( During the springtime, mama bears and their cubs emerge from their long winter hibernation, hungry and vulnerable. As a weakened mama bear musters up the little energy she has left to find food for her huddled babies, she can soon be caught in the crosshairs of hunters in the Northern Rockies. Special interests are working hard to strip Endangered Species Act protections from these iconic creatures -- so they can hunt them and wreak havoc on their land. [Help stop hunters from killing vulnerable grizzly bears and make your contribution of $27 or more today.]( Trophy hunters may soon take advantage of the lethargic and underfed grizzlies in their inhumane hunt if they get their way. But this doesn’t limit the danger to mama bears alone -- the consequences will be far-reaching. Bear cubs rely on their mothers for at least two years. If these mama bears are killed, their babies will be ORPHANED and left to starve, freeze, or be easy prey for other predators. Don’t let grizzly cubs become orphaned and left for dead. Protect vulnerable bears and make your $27 contribution. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( Idaho and Montana have some of the worst hunting practices. They were alarmingly quick to reinstate grizzly hunts when the Trump administration briefly removed ESA protections for the vulnerable species and are now working to do the same in order to appease the trophy hunting lobby and private interests who can then mine, log, and drill for profit on these lands. Premature delisting of threatened grizzly bears will cause havoc on their populations, the likes of which we’ve only seen once before in the direst of circumstances. You see, grizzly bears were once abundant, roaming the continental U.S. with as many as 50,000 in the western half. But reckless human activity, like hunting, trapping, and habitat loss, decimated their numbers to as little as 1,000 in the lower 48 states by 1975, when they were finally given protections. Now we are seeing this distressing scenario play out again, Friend. Private interests are working to remove protections so they can kill bears and take over the lands they call home -- all to turn a profit. We can’t allow history to repeat itself when we have so much to lose -- bears, their habitats, and the future of our planet. Stop trophy hunters from killing mama bears. Protect grizzlies and their babies and make your $27 contribution before it’s too late! If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( Bears are intelligent creatures who enhance biodiversity, enrich soils, regulate prey populations, and transport nutrients through different ecosystems as they make their way through vast swaths of wilderness. The removal of protections could cause devastating impacts not only on the species but on their surrounding environment. I need you in this fight if bears 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. There is no time to lose. The longer we wait to save these precious species, the more time trophy hunters and private interests have to chip away at animal and land protections. Join the fight for our precious bears before they are hunted down for sport and profit, and make your $27 contribution today! Bear cubs may soon be left to starve or freeze to death. Protect them and make your contribution of $27 or more today. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( Standing with you, Raena Garcia, Fossil fuels and lands campaigner, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA 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]( © 2022, Friends of the Earth. All Rights Reserved. [supporter]