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Tell USFWS to Protect African Lions Under the Endangered Species Act
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To: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Director Dan Ashe, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Dear Secretary Salazar and Director Ashe,
I am writing to urge that the Department of Interior's USFWS list the African lion as "Endangered Throughout its Range" under the Endangered Species Act.
Lions have disappeared from over 80% of their historic range, and their population declined by...
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Once numbering over one million by some estimates, African lions now exist in a fraction of their former range and fewer than 35,000 remain in the wild.
African lions have been slipping away at an alarming rate--dropping by 50% in just 30 years--due to habitat loss, disease, loss of prey species, conflicts with humans, and unsustainable trophy hunting and trade in lion parts.
We could begin to address these threats by protecting African lions throughout their remaining range under the Endangered Species Act. The United States is the world's largest importer of lion "trophies." Protecting lions under the Endangered Species Act would put needed, strict limits on the import and sale of lion "trophies" and parts.
This crucial step towards saving African lions is a long time coming; lions are the only big cat that has yet to be granted Endangered Species Act protections.
Please ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect African lions under the Endangered Species Act.
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STOP this!
Let's save the lions....
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lets help theses lovely animals to survive for the future.
These are indeed another one of God's majestic creatures! And they do need our help for their survival! I just watched a movie the other night entitled “White Lion”. Based on a true story about a white lion cub and its lifetime of struggle and a young African tribesman dedicating his whole lifetime in protecting this lion from being killed by hunters. There was documentary at the end of the movie giving the plight of these animals both white and tan colored. And years ago while vacationing...
…These are indeed another one of God's majestic creatures! And they do need our help for their survival! I just watched a movie the other night entitled “White Lion”. Based on a true story about a white lion cub and its lifetime of struggle and a young African tribesman dedicating his whole lifetime in protecting this lion from being killed by hunters. There was documentary at the end of the movie giving the plight of these animals both white and tan colored. And years ago while vacationing in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina I had the opportunity of a lifetime to get my picture taken with a young lion cub! I am a lover of ALL cats! From the small domesticated house cat to the mighty Majestic Lions, Tigers and so on! And it is our responsibility to help these creatures from being annihilated and caused to go into extinction! So yes, let's all of us help these beautiful animals to survive and live in this world of ours. Because they have just as much of a right to live in abundance on this earth as we do! So let's give them that right!
PLEASE LISTEN AND KEEP THESE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES ALIVE WE NEED THEM AS MUC AS THEY NEED US TO PROTECT THEM, AND THE KILLING MUST STOP, LETS GET MORE PEOPLE IN AFRICA TO PROTECT THESE WONDERFUL AMINALS FOR THE REST OF THERE LIVES, STOP PEOPLEFROM KILLING THEM FOR OTHERS WHO DOESN'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM, THIS IS OUR PLITE TO PROTECT THESE SPECIAL AND BEAUTIFUL LIONS AND ALL AFRICA WILDLIFE, MAKE AFRICA MAKE LAWS TO PROTECT THE WILDLIFE AND STOP THE LETTING RICH PEOPLE GO AND KILL THEM FOR TROPTY ON THERE WALLS, LET THEM BE SEEM IN THE WILD AND WATCH OVE THERE KINDOM WITH PRIDE AND WISDOM OF THE WILD, AND LETS KEEP ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL WILD CREATURES ALIVE AND WELL, FOR OUR FURTURE GENERATIONS TO COME, JUSTICE MUST BE DONE NOW, AND WE MUST FIGHT TO KEEP THE WILDLIFE PROTECTED FROM ANY HARM.
I can't imagine a world without lions.
Done, hope we can help them, Regards, Maria from England.
Humans are so vile sometimes think money buy everything in this fast life and now our wild animals are being wipe out and the lions now stop think about our world lets save our wild animals in this beautyfull world we have help them
THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE GOT TO SAVE THEM.
ll the animals