Prairie Dogs at Risk: Tell the EPA to Do its Job!
Jonathan Proctor Rocky Mountain Region Representative Defenders of Wildlife
A huge thanks to the more than 43,000 concerned citizens who took action to stop the EPA from approving Kaput-D to kill prairie dogs!
Now we need your help to get the agency to reverse its deadly decision to approve Rozol to kill prairie dogs in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.
Like Kaput-D, Rozol causes prairie dogs to slowly bleed to death and sets off a chain reaction of secondary poisoning that can kill imperiled animals that are tied to prairie dogs on the food chain -- including black-footed ferrets, swift foxes, eagles and ferruginous hawks.
Help protect prairie dogs and other imperiled animals. Take action now to tell the EPA to reverse its deadly decision before the deadline on Friday.
In recent weeks, we’ve been talking to you a lot about prairie dogs, but the overarching issue here is the EPA’s consistent failure to fulfill its mission of protecting endangered species.
For too long, this powerful agency has been in the pocket of agriculture and industry -- approving toxic chemicals that taint our water, poison our wildlife and threaten our health and our communities.
While we’re happy about the agency’s recent decision to get rid of carbofuran -- a highly toxic pesticide that has led to the deaths of millions of migratory birds and other animals in the U.S. alone -- the EPA needs to do more to protect wildlife and people from deadly poisons.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials submitted an 8-page letter asking the EPA to consult with them before approving Rozol, but the agency ignored this request and went ahead and rubberstamped it anyway.
Defenders is taking the EPA to court over its reckless -- and illegal -- decision to approve Rozol for use in ten states across the U.S., and is calling on the agency to fulfill its obligation to consult with state and federal wildlife experts to determine how these poisons will affect endangered species.
But we’ll need your help to make it happen. The deadline for comments is this Friday (November 6th), so please take action to defend wildlife today.
Thanks for making a difference,
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Jonathan Proctor Rocky Mountain Region Representative Defenders of Wildlife |
P.S. If you live in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas or Wyoming and are a member of Defenders of Wildlife, you can go the extra mile for prairie dogs by being a standing witness in our case against the EPA. Fill out this short survey if you’re interested in finding out more about what being a standing witness is all about, and we'll be in contact with more information soon.
Ask the EPA to Do its Job!
The EPA approved Rozol to kill prairie dogs without considering how it could affect other imperiled species.
Take action to ask the EPA to reverse its reckless decision to approve Rozol to kill prairie dogs in 10 states.
The deadline is Friday, November 6th,
so please take action today!