A mother grizzly was killed and now her cub is an orphan

Dear Friend, Hunting season is taking its toll. Help protect grizzlies and the planet before it’s too late: Donate $27 today! If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate $100 immediately]( [Donate another amount]( Trophy hunters GUNNED DOWN a mama grizzly bear in Montana. Her precious baby was left orphaned and alone -- wondering when mama might come home. This helpless cub will likely starve or freeze to death without protection from its mother. And with hunting season raging on, the baby may even get caught in the crossfire of trophy hunters. Don’t let another grizzly cub face the same fate. [Donate $27 today and help protect grizzly bears and the planet before another grizzly needlessly suffers a gruesome death.]( With hunting season in full swing, we could be seeing many more grizzly families torn apart at the seams. While grizzlies are protected under the Endangered Species Act, black bears aren’t so lucky. 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. And now, trophy hunters and private interests are chomping at the bit to remove protections for grizzly bears. That would let them 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 are in serious trouble this hunting season. Donate $27 now to help protect them and the planet! If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate $100 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 Endangered Species Act. But even with protections, grizzlies are still 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. 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, there will be devastating consequences. 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. 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. 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 $27 donation now! If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate $100 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 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 we have to protect these bears 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 $27 membership contribution today! 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