Desperate mama bears tormented and killed while their cubs are left orphaned

Orphaned bear cubs are starving and alone. Please, donate $10 today towards our $5,000 goal to help protect vulnerable wildlife and our planet! Dear Friend, Orphaned bear cubs are starving and alone. Please, donate $10 today towards our $5,000 goal to help protect vulnerable wildlife and our planet! If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $10 immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate another amount]( A mama bear searches for dinner for her newborn cubs, but doesn’t see the metal clamps on the forest floor. With one step, steel rips into her flesh and she cries out, thumping to the ground. Held in a death grip, she spends days there – blood pooling around her. Her attempts to escape only make the pain worse, and she’s getting weaker. As she takes her last breaths, all she can think about are her babies back in the den. She knows that without her protection, they’ll soon starve or freeze to death – that is, if hunters don’t come for them first. Friend, trophy hunters are tearing apart bear families like this with little to no consequences. Black bears are tortured, and orphaned cubs are left waiting for help that will never come. Without action, bloodthirsty hunters could soon doom grizzly bears to the same gruesome fate – and before long, drive these precious bears to extinction. [Please, don’t waste another moment: Donate $10 today and help us reach our urgent $5,000 goal for wildlife and our planet before another bear cub is left orphaned.]( You may be wondering how this kind of slaughter could happen if grizzlies have protections in the lower 48 states. Sadly, these iconic bears may not enjoy protections for much longer. Cruel trophy hunters are fighting tooth and nail to dismantle the Endangered Species Act – which could leave grizzlies vulnerable to a host of inhumane hunting practices like helicopter chases and dynamite! The good news? Friends of the Earth is fighting harder. We won’t sit back and watch while a hunter’s sick desire to watch wildlife die for “fun” drives mass killings of vulnerable wildlife. But Friend, we need you in this fight with us if we’re going to make a difference. So please, will you donate anything you can today to help us safeguard a future for our nation’s wildlife and our planet? The attacks on our nation’s grizzlies must end. Donate $10 today and help us reach our $5,000 midnight goal for wildlife and our planet. If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $10 immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate another amount]( While 50,000 grizzlies once roamed the continental U.S., their populations have plummeted to less than 2,000 bears. And a huge culprit has been human impact. Human-driven habitat loss and excessive hunting and trapping have decimated their numbers. Today, grizzly habitats continue to shrink. Their food sources are increasingly hard to find. And climate change is driving them closer to the brink of extinction. As a result, fewer and fewer cubs are surviving to reach adulthood. And adult bears are dying at alarming rates, too. That’s why losing their ESA protections could wipe out grizzly bears forever. Without them, trophy hunters could be allowed to kill grizzlies indiscriminately, and with no consequences. And once grizzlies are driven out of their lands, Big Polluters will swoop in. They have hopes to open these lands up for mining, logging, and other planet-harming practices. That would destroy any hope of recovery for grizzlies – including reintroduction to their historic range. Friend, it’s clear that we could lose grizzlies without urgent action. Plain and simple, they can’t afford to lose their life-saving protections. And our planet can’t afford it, either. That’s why we’ve set our $5,000 midnight goal to fight back against these vicious attacks on our nation’s wildlife. Will you fight with us today to help strengthen the Endangered Species Act and protect vulnerable wildlife and the planet while there’s still time to act? Please, donate $10 or more by midnight tonight to help us reach our $5,000 goal before grizzlies are wiped off the face of the Earth. If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $10 immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $50 immediately]( [Donate another amount]( Grizzly bears play an essential role in the circle of life. When they hunt, they regulate prey populations – protecting plants from overgrazing. That’s why it’s so important that grizzlies remain protected under the Endangered Species Act. These laws don’t just protect bears, though. They provide critical protection for America’s species and the lands they roam. They’re also some of our most effective safeguards in the fight to protect our planet from fossil fuel exploitation and curb catastrophic climate change. At Friends of the Earth, we’re fighting to strengthen the Endangered Species Act and all of the wildlife that depends on it. We've collected thousands of comments from supporters just like you urging our leaders to protect this vital legislation. And with your help, we’re pushing back against attacks on the Endangered Species Act and the greedy corporations that want to dismantle it. But the fight is far from over, Friend. Your membership support to Friends of the Earth today will help fuel our work to push back against these private interests aiming to weaken the ESA in order to hunt down vulnerable species like bears, wreaking havoc on their environments, and contributing to the ecological destruction on our planet. Join the fight for our planet and precious wildlife before they are hunted to extinction, and make your $10 membership contribution today! Grizzlies are hanging on by a thread. Rush your $10 donation to fight for wildlife and our planet and help us reach our $5,000 goal by midnight TONIGHT! 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