DESCRIPTION: Letter opposing the Extinction Committee’s closed-door decisions to doom endangered marine life
TO: U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum
FROM: Advocates for Snake Preservation; American Bird Conservancy; Animal Protection New Mexico; Animal Wonders KC; Caceres; Calwild; Carnivore Coexistence Lab; Center for Biological Diversity; Conservation Council for Hawai’i; Conservation Law Foundation; Endangered Habitats League; Endangered Species Coalition; Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC); FOUR PAWS USA; Friends of Blackwater, inc.; Friends of Merrymeeting Bay; Friends of the Clearwater; Friends of the Earth; Great Old Broads for Wilderness; GreenLatinos; Healthy Gulf; Humane World Action Fund; Humane World for Animals; Indiana Forest Alliance; Inland Ocean Coalition; International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute; Izaak Walton League Rapid City SD Chapter; Kettle Range Conservation Group; Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center; Lone Star Humane Association; Los Angeles Audubon Society; Maine Audubon; Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket (MMAN); Next 100 Coalition; Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative; Northern Virginia Bird Alliance; NYC Plover Project; Oasis Earth; Ocean Conservancy; Ocean Conservation Research; Ocean Defense Initiative; Orleans Audubon Society; PEER; Prairie Hills Audubon Society; Predator Defense; Project Eleven Hundred; PSR PA; Resource Renewal Institute; Rockbridge Conservation; Science for Colorado Wildlife; Sea Turtle Conservancy; Sierra Club; Surfrider Foundation; The Urban Wildlands Group; Tuleyome; Turtle Island Restoration Network; Waterkeeper Alliance; Western Watersheds Project; Western Wildlife Conservancy; Wild Cumberland; WildEarth Guardians; Wildlife for All; Winter Whelan; Wyoming Untrapped; Wyoming Wildlife Advocates; Yaak Valley Forest Council
DATE: March 17, 2026
TAGS: DOI, ESA, Endangered Species Act, wildlife
