UPDATE: Take Action to Protect Endangered Species!
By Mark J. Palmer
The Trump administration wants to remove the restrictions imposed on businesses by the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), our nation’s strongest wildlife law.
UPDATE: The comment deadline on the proposed ESA regulations closed on Dec. 22nd, 2025. A total of 343,743 comments were received, most of them opposed to the action. Thanks for commenting! Likely, if these regulations are implemented, environmentalists like IMMP will sue to block them.
The new regulations would considerably weaken the implementation of the ESA in several important and critical ways:
• Allow decisions about protecting a species to be influenced by uncertain economic impacts instead of relying on scientific evidence. In other words, opponents of the ESA, such as the oil or logging industries, can argue against protecting a species that might interfere with their profits.
• Obstruct protections for species newly threatened by climate change and habitat destruction. The Trump administration claims climate change is a hoax.
• Make it easier to delist imperiled wildlife before recovery is complete.
• Eliminate automatic protections for threatened species.
• Strip away critical habitat protections.
The Endangered Species Coalition has called the new regulations “one of the most dangerous attacks on wildlife we have ever seen.”
The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) is joining with other organizations around the country to protest these new regulations.
The administration and Congress are also working to weaken the ESA and other environmental laws to favor business over wildlife protection.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
The public comment process is complicated, but the Endangered Species Coalition has set up a website to guide you to the correct government comment website for the ESA regulations along with suggestions for what you can write to oppose these new regulations.
Go to the Comment Website for the ESA.
The deadline for comments is Dec. 22nd.
Thanks for your support for endangered wildlife, including whales and dolphins!
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We hope you will donate to the work of the International Marine Mammal Project this holiday season. We are working to end the attacks on the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act by this administration and Congress. We are working to retire 30 belugas in Canada and the two orcas, Wikie and Keijo, in France, to seaside sanctuaries. Your donations go far with our lean and aggressive organization. Thank you for your support!
