rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/urge-congress-to-stop-the-esa-harm-rule-3?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-urge-congress-to-stop-the-esa-harm-rule-3' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Endangered Species Coalition https://actionnetwork.org/groups/endangered-species-coalition https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/459/048/normal/petrel.des.bermudes.stjo.3g.jpg The Bermuda petrel cannot survive without a safe place to call home. But a new federal rule — the ESA “Harm” Rule — threatens one of the Endangered Species Act’s most important safeguards: the longstanding recognition that destroying habitat can cause real harm to endangered and threatened wildlife. The Bermuda petrel is a striking, medium-sized seabird with long wings, brownish-gray upperparts, white underparts, and a distinctive dark cap. Like wildlife everywhere, its survival depends on having the habitat it needs to feed, breed, shelter, and recover. Forests provide places for birds and mammals to feed and raise their young. Rivers and wetlands sustain fish, amphibians, and countless other species. Grasslands, deserts, coastlines, oceans, nesting areas, and migration corridors give wildlife the space they need to move, reproduce, and recover. Protecting wildlife means protecting the places wildlife depend on. Habitat loss and degradation are among the greatest threats facing wildlife today. Once those places are destroyed, even the strongest protections against directly killing an animal cannot give that species what it needs to survive. For species like the Bermuda petrel, protecting individual birds is only part of the equation. Protecting the places they rely on is essential to giving them a chance to survive and recover. Part of the Endangered Species Act’s success rests on a commonsense principle: we cannot recover endangered wildlife while allowing the destruction of habitat essential to their survival. We cannot afford to weaken safeguards for endangered wildlife and the habitats that sustain them. From the Bermuda petrel soaring over the ocean to imperiled wildlife across the country, species need more than protection from direct harm. They need safe places to live, feed, reproduce, and recover. Tell Congress: Overturn the ESA “Harm” Rule. Support H.R. 9901 and S.J. Res. 204. Defend the habitat protections that species need to survive and recover. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/urge-congress-to-stop-the-esa-harm-rule-3