“In the aftermath of the United States 2024 elections, one reality remains unchanged – human activities are driving over one million species to extinction,” said Susan Holmes, executive director. “President-Elect Trump and the new Senate majority are no friends to wildlife. Mr. Trump and his allies have stated that they will seek to end protections for vulnerable species like wolves and grizzlies and open up essential habitats to oil and gas development. We will do all we can to stop President-Elect Trump’s extinction agenda before cherished plant and animal species are lost forever.”

In its first 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has saved 99% of the species it protected from extinction. As human-driven habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and direct overexploitation of wildlife increase worldwide, transformative changes across economic, technological, social, and political factors are needed to halt the ongoing global extinction crisis.

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January of 2025 will mean a new president and a new Senate majority hostile to wildlife. We know a barrage of attacks is coming to wolves, whales, salmon, and grizzlies. The Endangered Species Act is on the chopping block. In 2024 alone there have been 138 legislative attacks on the Endangered Species Act–second only to the Affordable Care Act–and we know the President-Elect has the ESA in his sights.

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The way we beat those attacks and protect the bears, wolves, whales, bees, and plants that we all love is through organizing. We are strongest when we come together. Yesterday we convened our first post-election meeting for our amazing member groups. There was anxiety but also resolve. We are not backing down. Together we are a powerful community. Each of us–organizers, activists, and everything in between–are going to be needed in the months to come.

Since its founding, the Endangered Species Coalition has been the grassroots arm for biodiversity movement and led the fight to safeguard the Endangered Species Act. It has successfully fought back attacks on the Endangered Species Act from the Reagan Administration to today. It led the fight to save the Act during the last Trump Administration. We push every administration–regardless of political party–to protect endangered species and the wild places that they call home. We bring more than 400 organizations and hundreds of thousands of activists like you and me together to strategize, to mobilize, to organize and to make real gains for wildlife. We know that organizing works. Our most influential laws would not be here without the work of grassroots organizers. When we come together, we can win.

Please join us in the fight for wildlife. Make a one time or monthly gift to maximize your impact to protect wildlife at this most critical time.

I believe in the power of nature, and in the power of this community.

Thank you for your commitment to wildlife and wild places.

In partnership,

Susan Holmes
Executive Director
Endangered Species Coalition
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