If any of you would like to see the comments the Sierra Club is
submitting, I can email them to you.

Jane Clark wrote:

>BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S ATTACK ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT:
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>The Washington Post (10/11) reported that the Bush Administration's drastic
>proposal to eviscerate the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) would have
>"far-reaching changes to conservation policies that would allow hunters,
>circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals on the
>brink of extinction in other countries." The ESA was passed in 1973 to
>effectively prohibit Americans from participating in international trade in
>endangered wildlife, but thanks in part to lobbying by trophy hunting groups
>like the Safari Club International, the Bush Administration is pushing
>changes that would allow, and even encourage, the trade in endangered
>animals (like the endangered Asian elephant), under the twisted logic that
>doing so would raise funds to help pay for their conservation. This pivotal
>decision pending on the fate of endangered species everywhere hinges, in
>much part, on the public's feedback to the proposed changes to the ESA.
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>WHAT YOU CAN DO:
>
>Please consider sending your e-mail to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by
>Friday, October 17, urging it to reject the proposed changes to the ESA and
>to not allow the import of endangered animals by zoos, circuses, trophy
>hunters and the pet industry.
>
>Chief, Division of Management Authority
>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
>4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Room 700
>Arlington, VA 22203
>Fax: 703-358-2280
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>You can find the Federal Register regarding this draft policy at:
>www.policy.fws.gov/library/03-20941.pdf
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