Last Chance: Gifts Doubled to Help Save Seals, Wolves, Sea Turtles

Last Chance to Double Your Impact! Give By Midnight EST Tonight to Help Save Seals, Wolves, Sea Turtles. Dear Center Supporter, I've been so impressed by the positive responses in the past few days from our supporters and your commitment to help save endangered wildlife. Thank you for all you've done with us this year. We have just hours left to reach our $150,000 fundraising goal -- and I need your help in a big way. Please consider making a gift of any amount before midnight tonight. The more you can give = the more wild animals and plants, and the more acres of habitat, we can protect. I know not everyone can make a gift this year -- but we need everyone to help as much as they can. Click here to give now. Thank you. It feels good to win. But it feels even better to help save lives -- as we just did for two rare, beautiful ice seal species in the Arctic. Please -- help us save more lives with a year-end gift today. Last week, after a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the federal government finally protected ringed and bearded seals under the Endangered Species Act. Both species are struggling painfully to survive the melting ice and snow caused by the climate crisis. If we hadn't pushed so hard, they would still be alone in that struggle, without urgently needed legal protection. These fights are tough. They take time, money, expertise and resolve. The Center has been fighting for seals and hundreds of other species for more than 20 years, and we have the best track record of successfully winning protections for endangered wildlife of any group in the nation. There are only four days left before our special matching fund offer expires. This is your best chance to help stop the senseless extinction of endangered species like ice seals and double your gift. We first petitioned to protect ice seals in 2008. We knew then that the melting Arctic threatened the lives of these ice-dependent animals; we knew they could only survive with the help of the Endangered Species Act. The government agreed to help the seals but then delayed those protections -- so we went to court. That's what the Center does. When wildlife are in trouble -- whether it's wolves, whales, birds or corals -- we step in to make sure they get the lifesaving help they deserve, and we simply don't stop until it's done. We helped win new protections for more than 30 species this year, along with 31 million acres of protected habitat. The Center's Save the Endangered Species Act Fund was set up to win these great victories and to enable us to jump in when species are being pushed to extinction. Please help us continue our lifesaving work in 2013 with a generous gift today -- and your gift will be matched dollar for dollar by a Center board member. Despite important victories in 2012, this is no time to rest. Wolf families in the Southwest and along the West Coast struggle against those who want drive them from their homes; imperiled sea turtles still drown needlessly in fishing nets; polar bears face the grim reality that climate change is robbing them of the ice they need to hunt and feed their young. Extinction is forever. That's why our work is critical right now to defend wildlife law and take strong, decisive legal action to save species. Every dollar will help, so please give as generously as you can by Dec. 31, and your gift will be matched in full. Those who stand against us -- right-wingers in Congress, the NRA, shortsighted corporations -- are spoiling for a fight. They'd rather mine, log, pave and pollute our nation's most important wildlife habitat into oblivion than give up a few cents off their profit margins. We need to meet the challenge head-on. Please help us reach our goal and secure these special year-end matching funds by donating to the Save the Endangered Species Act Fund today. For the wild future, Kierán Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity P.S. It took us four years of hard-charging legal and scientific action to win protection for these two Arctic ice seals -- and not a moment too soon, as scientists are steadily documenting the melting and deterioration of their habitat. We were able to fight that hard fight to protect these animals because of our members’ devotion to saving them. That’s why it’s so important that you help today by making a gift to our Save the Endangered Species Act Fund. All gifts by midnight on Dec. 31 will be matched to make twice the impact. This message was sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. Bearded seal pup photo courtesy NOAA. All donations to the Center for Biological Diversity are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Our tax ID number is 27-3943866. 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