In this news short we cover the recent Congressional Hearing that was held as an opening attack against the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. This news short brings you quickly up to date on not only what’s happening and why it’s important, but what we can do together right now to make a difference. How we can resist this attack.

RESOURCES FOR THE SHOW NOTES:

Three things we can all this week to resist this attack on the Endangered Specieis Act:

Number 1: Find the names and contact information for your three members of congress. Most of us have two senators and one representative. All three of them represent and work for us. You can plug in your zip code here to find yours:

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Number Two: Here are two national organizations that specialize in wildlife protection and that have helpful online resources:

* The Endangered Species Coalition has a list of actions they recommend we all take, including a short phone script if you are calling your members of congress, and additional links to other good resources:

https://www.endangered.org/together-we-have-power-to-stop-trump-and-congress-from-gutting-protections-for-endangered-species-and-marine-mammals/

* Defenders of Wildlife is another national organization that works on these issues and has good online information and action items. From their main page here you can learn more about these issues, and they have a whole section of their site “Taking Action” that you can get to from this main page.

https://defenders.org/

Number 3: Find and join a state or local environmental organization that appeals to you. 

* You can search online: Find a local environmental organization near me

* Or search “Maryland Native Plant Society” (replacing Maryland with your state name of course)

Or you can check out the Endangered Species Coalition list of coalition member organizations, sorted by state (and with a search option), to give you the names of some good ones here: https://www.endangered.org/view/member-organizations/