[Pollinator] The Endangered Species Act Needs Your Help!

[Rich Hatfield]

Hi everyone,

As you probably know, the current administration has proposed changes to
the Endangered Species Act that have the potential to dramatically affect
how the law is implemented, to the detriment of the species it was
explicitly designed to protect. The rusty patched bumble bee teeters on the
brink of extinction and in 2017 it became the first bee in the continental
U.S. to be listed under the ESA. The proposed changes could affect how the
ESA will provide protections to this and other disappearing species.

Today, to help secure the protection of our most imperiled species, the
Xerces Society launched an action campaign to encourage those concerned to
submit comments on the Federal Register, and contact their Members of
Congress. *The comment period ends on **September 24, 2018 at 11:59 p.m.
EDT.* You can find more information about this subject, and how to take
action in the blog post on our website. Here is the url:
https://xerces.org/2018/08/29/the-endangered-species-act-needs-your-help/.

Yours in conservation,
*Rich Hatfield *
  Senior Conservation Biologist, Endangered Species Program
  Red List Authority, IUCN Bumble Bee Specialist Group
<http://www.iucn.org/bumblebees>



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