Attacks to the Endangered Species Act put vulnerable wildlife populations at risk

What's At Stake

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is once again under attack by Congressional Republicans, putting species with rapidly declining populations at even greater risk. 

The ESA Amendments Act, currently under consideration by the House of Representatives, would gut the ESA, putting numerous species at risk, all to make it easier for industry to turn a profit. Among other damaging provisions, this bill would delay timelines for listing species as threatened or endangered — allowing their populations to decline in the meantime — while fast-tracking rules that would delist endangered species that still need federal protections. 

We must defend the Endangered Species Act. Tell your member of Congress to stop this unnecessary attack on a wildly effective and widely popular law. 

In the coming decades, a million of the Earth’s species face the possibility of extinction due to human-caused habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. Even species not yet on the brink will likely face huge population declines. This extinction crisis means fewer and fewer pollinators to support our crops and national food supply; depleted fisheries; and disappearing wild places like rivers, wetlands, coral reefs, and forests that all species rely on. 

Tell Congress that you support the Endangered Species Act and reject the ESA Amendments Act.