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Stop the "extinction caucus" from gutting the Endangered Species Act!

The "extinction caucus" in Congress wants to gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA) even as the world faces a biodiversity and extinction crisis!

They’ve just introduced radical legislation to drastically weaken the ESA and decrease protections for threatened and endangered species—including imperiled species that call Wilderness home.

Please speak up today to stop this brazen attack on the ESA and help save America’s imperiled plants and wildlife!

Many of the threatened and endangered species protected by the ESA—such as wolverine, grizzly bear, West Indian manatee, desert tortoise, bull trout, Canada lynx, Florida brickell-bush, and whitebark pine—are found within America’s National Wilderness Preservation System. And they won’t be spared if this radical bill becomes law!

If passed by Congress, the so-called "ESA Amendments Act of 2025" (H.R. 1897) would gut the critical protections that the ESA provides for thousands of imperiled species, upend the scientific consultation process, fast-track delistings even if species aren’t recovered, and allow much more exploitation of threatened and endangered species, including harming, killing, and harassing species—even in Wilderness.

For over 35 years, the ESA has been one of the most effective environmental policies in America, with 99 percent of listed species being saved from extinction. And for over 35 years, Wilderness Watch has relied on the ESA to help protect threatened and endangered species that use Wilderness for part or all of their range.

Now we need you to help us protect these imperiled species by raising your voice to defend the ESA! Write your U.S. House Rep and demand they stand up for the Endangered Species Act and oppose H.R. 1897.

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Photo: Wolverine by Howie Wolke, Wilderness Watch Board Member

Stop Congress from from gutting the Endangered Species Act!

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Subject: Please oppose H.R. 1897

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As your constituent, I’m asking you to oppose H.R. 1897, the so-called “ESA Amendments Act of 2025,” which would gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA) even as the world faces a biodiversity and extinction crisis. H.R. 1897 would gut the critical protections that the ESA provides for thousands of imperiled species, upend the scientific consultation process, fast-track delistings even if species aren’t recovered, and allow much more exploitation of threatened and endangered species, including harming, killing, and harassing species—even in protected Wilderness areas. For over 35 years, the ESA has been one of the most effective environmental policies in America, with 99 percent of listed species being saved from extinction. H.R. 1897 would significantly rewrite key portions of the ESA to prioritize politics over science and inappropriately shift responsibility for key implementation decisions from the federal government to the states, many of which do not have sufficient resources or legal mechanisms in place to take the lead in conserving listed species. H.R. 1897 would also place significant new administrative burdens on already over-burdened agencies, turning the current process for listing and recovering threatened and endangered species into a far lengthier process that precludes judicial review of key decisions. More specifically, among other things, this disastrous bill would: • Upend the consultation process—the cornerstone of American species protection for 50 years meant to ensure that agency action doesn’t jeopardize the continued existence of an endangered or threatened species; • Slow new listings to protect species to a crawl, while fast-tracking delistings and preventing citizen-led judicial review of these decisions for years; • Gut review of permits that allow ESA-listed species to be harmed or killed, including preventing the federal government from imposing additional mitigation measures for a permit if it finds that the original mitigation measures aren’t working; • Substitute politics for science-based decision making, including arbitrarily and categorically titling any information provided by local or State governments (who sometimes have conflicts of interest) the “best” science or data, which eliminates the court’s current ability to decide what is legitimately the best science or data; • Erode public accountability in wildlife management, including shielding from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act select data given by States or private parties that impact federal decisions; and • Attack rules intended to protect threatened and endangered species with measures such as forcing the federal government to weaken rules that prove effective. For these reasons, as your constituent, I’m urging you to stand up for threatened and endangered species by opposing H.R. 1897.

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