Call for protection of Pika

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Center for Biological Diversity

 

When it comes to global warming in the lower 48 states, the American

pika is the canary in the coal mine. This adorable rabbit relative,

which lives near mountain peaks in the American West, cannot tolerate

exposure to warming temperatures from climate change. As temperatures

rise, pikas at lower elevations are rapidly disappearing. *Already, more

than a third of studied pika populations in the Great Basin mountains of

Nevada and Oregon have gone extinct, and lower-elevation pika

populations have disappeared from portions of California's Sierra Nevada

mountains.*

 

Fortunately, there's still time left to protect pikas and their mountain

homes -- but only if we act quickly. In response to the Center for

Biological Diversity's scientific petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service is conducting a review to determine whether the American pika

should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. *The public has

until July 6 to subit comments.* This is the first important step toward

listing the pika under the Act in order to protect the species and its

alpine habitat from climate change.

 

Rapidly reducing global greenhouse gas pollution to safe levels is

critical to preventing the extinction of the pika. Please, write today

to support protection for the pika and to urge the government to reduce

greenhouse gas pollution to levels that will protect pikas and other

wildlife species from extinction.

 

 

Visit

 

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27538

to take action.