Kristine’s Inner Circle

Dear Friend,

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law banning interstate sale of graphic animal “crush” videos that show extreme forms of animal cruelty for the sexual titillation of viewers.

These grotesque videos involve the intentional crushing, drowning, burning, and impaling of kittens, puppies, rabbits, and other small animals, often by women in high heels.

Help make sure these horrific videos never see the light of day again — despite the Supreme Court decision.

Fortunately, outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision has spurred Congress to act again: Yesterday U.S. Representative Elton Gallegly (R-CA) and 56 other Representatives introduced H.R. 5092.

This legislation would provide the tools law enforcement needs to crack down on traffickers of cruel animal “crush” videos. Support our lobbying efforts to pass H.R. 5092 and other animal protection bills — please make a special gift today.

No one should be allowed to profit from these videos of women crushing small animals for the sexual gratification of others.

 Don’t allow this cruelty to happen any longer – please make a generous donation today to support our work to ban “crush” videos and protect animals from other forms of cruelty.

Thank you for all you do for animals!

 Sincerely,

Mike Markarian
President
Humane Society Legislative Fund

Extremists are targeting the most endangered wolves in the world for death.  Help us put the criminal killers behind bars and save these precious animals before it’s too late.

YES! I want to help save endangered lobos and other wildlife with my donation of…$15.00 $30.00 $33.33 My Gift for Lobos

Please donate now to help save the last 42 lobos, other imperiled wildlife and their homes.

We need your help to raise $40,000 by Friday, April 23rd.

First she was shot.

Then the body of this highly endangered wolf was dumped — like a sack of garbage — along the side of the road.

To scientists she was F386, a five-year-old female that represented hope for her struggling species.

To us, she was a beautiful animal who deserved the right to live in the wilds of America’s Southwest, where these wolves once thrived.

This terrible killing underscores the growing mindless hatred threatening Mexican wolves — or lobos — the rarest wolves in the world.

Please donate today to help catch the wolf haters who are stalking and killing lobos and put in place a protective recovery program for the most endangered wolves in the world.

Decades of trapping, shooting and poisoning exterminated lobos from the wild. In 1998, wild wolves returned to the Southwest — but more than a decade later, their lives are in grave danger.

Criminal wolf killers, mismanagement and a venomous anti-wolf movement have caused the Mexican wolf population to plummet to just 42 — putting these rare animals at risk of a second extinction in the wild.

Please stand with us today and give these wolves a fighting chance through your tax-deductible donation.

The bottom line is that lobos will not survive the fierce onslaught of these extremists without our immediate action. Your contribution will help Defenders… Post rewards to help law enforcement capture and put these lawless wolf killers behind bars.
Push Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to fast-track a science-based plan for restoring lobos to their rightful home in the Southwest. Already, nearly 53,000 Defenders activists like you have sent messages to Secretary Salazar urging immediate action, including thousands of wolf supporters living in Arizona and New Mexico.
Counter the hate-filled propaganda of extremists through an aggressive public education campaign.
Use proven on-the-ground techniques to keep wolves away from livestock and away from those who would harm them.
Please donate now to help save the last 42 wild lobos and other wildlife struggling to survive.

The plight of lobos is desperate. Only two breeding pairs are left in the wild as these wolves struggle to survive — including the mother and father of the Middle Fork pack who have each lost a leg to a painful human-made trap and gunshot wound.

State officials have twice targeted this three-legged pair for removal from the wild. Defenders is again working on the ground to ensure these wolves stay out of harm’s way.

The fight to save these magnificent wolves from a second extinction in the wild will be tough, but with your help, I know we can succeed for them.

Save something wild,

Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife

P.S.  Wolf-haters are stalking the last 42 Southwest wolves in the wild.  Help us put wolf killers behind bars and secure protection for these beautiful animals with your secure online donation http://www.defenders.org/ or call 1-800-385-9712 to donate by phone.

 

It’s the worst possible nightmare for Alaska’s wilderness, and I need your help to stop it.

A foreign-owned mining company called Anglo American is planning to dig one of the world’s largest open-pit mines — the Pebble Mine — in the heart of Alaska’s irreplaceable Bristol Bay watershed.

You couldn’t pick a worse place to dig this dirty 2,000-foot-deep, two-mile-long gold and copper mega-mine.

That’s why we need you to sign our Petition of Protest now so that we can send your signature along with hundreds of thousands of others to Anglo American’s Annual Shareholders Meeting, which ironically enough is being held on April 22: Earth Day!

Please take action immediately to help save this Alaskan paradise. The planet’s largest sockeye salmon streams run through it, with tens of millions of salmon not just supporting an abundance of bears, whales, seals, and eagles but also sustaining Native communities that have thrived here for thousands of years.

Sited in a known earthquake zone, Pebble Mine’s colossal earthen dams — which are supposed to hold back some 10 billion tons of mining waste mixed with toxic chemicals — could release vast quantities of contaminants into the surrounding ecosystem in the event of a quake.

But it wouldn’t even take such a massive release to irreparably damage this unspoiled place. That’s because Anglo American’s plan for Pebble Mine also includes the permanent destruction of over 60 miles of salmon habitat.

If Bristol Bay’s world-famous salmon runs collapse, it could take down the entire ecosystem, not to mention the communities that depend on the salmon for their livelihood.

Keep A Foreign Mining Giant out of Alaska’s Wildlife Eden

Anglo American’s reported record of environmental contamination is shocking. The company’s history is littered with one toxic disaster after another … from Zimbabwe to Ireland … from South Africa to even Nevada.

It’s no wonder that so many Alaskan Natives — led by Nunamta Aulukestai (”Caretakers of the Land”) along with Alaskan fishermen, sportsmen, and conservationists, are organizing to prevent this apocalyptic outcome.

Here’s what Bobby Andrew, spokesperson for Nunamta Aulukestai, says about the mine: “Some of these mining companies have wreaked environmental devastation all over the world. How can we allow them to invade and industrialize our sacred land and pollute our waters? How can we let these foreign corporations deprive our people of the salmon and other subsistence foods that we rely on for our very survival?”

That’s why NRDC has joined the local opposition and is now preparing to help take their fight to the national and international stage to stop Anglo American.

But we need you to stand with us. Please do your part to stop Pebble Mine by signing our Petition of Protest now.

We must seize this chance to send Anglo American a message loud and clear at its Shareholder Meeting: American citizens will NOT stand for the contamination and destruction of Alaska’s Bristol Bay wilderness. Not on Earth Day. Not on any day.

The first step to stopping this corporate goliath is letting them know that Americans fervently support the people of Bristol Bay in opposing this scheme — and that the company is in for a long and expensive fight if it moves forward.

Please act now to help defeat Anglo American’s disastrous plan. Pebble Mine would be an unimaginable disaster for wildlife, local communities and our Alaskan wilderness. I’m counting on you to help us stop it.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

P.S. With Earth Day so close at hand, there isn’t much time for you to sign our Petition. We only have weeks to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures on our Petition and get it delivered to mining giant Anglo American in London.