The Endangered Species Act is under attack, again, in Congress.  The Maryland Ornithological Society has recently petitioned the US Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Golden-winged Warbler under the ESA.  The continued decline of the Rufa subspecies of the Red Knot should also warrant listing.  This will come to naught if there's no funding.  Please consider taking action.
 
Kurt Schwarz
Conservation Chair
MOS

 
Once more, your voice is urgently needed to help save America's most endangered species. Just days after the Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a historic agreement to speed protections for 757 species, House Republicans have placed a rider in the appropriations bill for funding the Department of the Interior that would prohibit the government from spending any money to list new species as endangered or designate their habitat critical. Dubbed the "extinction rider," the bill would handcuff the Endangered Species Act and place hundreds of species at greater risk of extinction. 

Please contact your U.S. congressional representative and urge him or her to oppose the extinction rider.

Cut and paste the below into your browser to take action.

 http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7368 to take action now. 

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