This Giving Tuesday, Give to Bobcats and Other Wildlife

Dear Center Supporter, At the border of California's Joshua Tree National Park, several bobcat clans once roamed free -- roughhousing with each other, catching small prey and sustaining the web of life in and around the park. But these beautiful spotted cats started to disappear, and their wildlife-loving neighbors soon noticed that whole families had gone missing. Help protect wildlife. Make a matched gift today. A search quickly led to a smoking gun: Baited traps with meat lures had been laid around the edges of the protected park. Bobcat fur had become a high-demand luxury item in places like China and Russia, with prices soaring and single pelts fetching as much as $1,200. These bobcats had been slaughtered and their pelts shipped overseas. So the Center for Biological Diversity went to war for bobcats. With the help of our members, we secured protection for these beautiful creatures and won a statewide ban on bobcat fur trapping. The Center wins for wildlife when we have your support. That's why this Giving Tuesday, a committed wildlife champion has stepped forward with a year-end matched gift to the Endangered Species Defense Fund, matching your donation dollar for dollar. Your support, combined with our determination to see each fight through, is what makes the Center the hard-hitting, effective wildlife champion it is today. And we're not stopping with bobcats. We plan to leverage this victory state by state to take on brutal wildlife trapping that threatens other endangered species like Canada lynx in Idaho and Maine, wolverines in Montana, and Pacific fishers in Oregon. Just this past weekend in Utah, a female wolf was killed in a neck-snare trap meant for coyotes. To protect bobcats, and other vanishing species including wolves, African elephants, Hawaiian monk seals, bees and monarch butterflies, a long-time wildlife advocate has offered to match, dollar for dollar, all contributions to this fund made by Dec. 31. Please make a gift today to our Endangered Species Defense Fund, and allow us to continue fighting off enemies of wildlife and protecting species and their habitat for another year. Here at the Center, protecting wildlife is an act of love. Please share your love for the wild with a gift to the Endangered Species Defense Fund today. For the wild, Kierán Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity @KieranSuckling Please share this message with your social networks: This message was sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. Photo of bobcats courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Summer M. Tribble. The Center for Biological Diversity sends out newsletters and action alerts through SalsaLabs.com. Let us know if you'd like to stop receiving action alerts and newsletters from us. Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 710 Tucson, AZ 85702 1-866-357-3349