Friends of the Earth

3X Your Gift to Protect Our Planet Before 2024 Ends!

A mama polar bear makes an impossible choice: abandon her weakened cub to make sure her remaining baby survives. Even then, nothing is certain – they've walked for days with no food in sight and weakness is setting in. As sea ice patches become rare, many polar bears are struggling to hunt for their survival. Exhausted adult polar bears try to push through the growing distances between these bare patches, but young cubs don’t have the same energy – often resulting in tragic losses. 

 

Protecting vulnerable polar bears from painful starvation and death depends on the Endangered Species Act. Now that Trump and a GOP majority in Congress have been elected, the ESA and other bedrock environmental laws are at risk of being gutted. Trump’s extremist policies gutted key environmental protections before, and his allies are already preparing to dismantle the Endangered Species Act and our other bedrock laws again. 

 

We can’t afford to sit back and let Trump and his cronies waste our last, best chance at securing a future for vulnerable species and the Earth we share with them before it gets any worse. That’s why your membership gift today, while every dollar can be MATCHED $2-to-$1 to our $900,000 goal, is so urgent. Make a tax-deductible membership gift to Friends of the Earth now to power our fight to protect our planet and all its inhabitants. This match expires at midnight on December 31– so act now before it’s gone! 

 

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