Tell BLM - DO NOT Slaughter Desert Tortoises
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Change.org and American Tortoise Rescue
August 2013

ACTION

Federal funds are running out at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990.

Sign an online petition (copy/paste URL into your browser):
http://www.change.org/petitions/u-s-department-of-the-interior-bureau-of-land-management-stop-the-planned-slaughter-of-tortoises-due-to-lack-of-funds

And/or better yet, make direct contact:

Bureau of Land Management
[email protected]

Send emails, faxes and make calls to Nevada Bureau of Land Management: http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/info/state_directory.html

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

Read: Desert Tortoises and the BLM

The animals were taken in by BLM with the promise that they would protect and care for them. These wonderful animals are on the endangered species list and should be protected at all costs. Other placement needs to be found if funds cannot be appropriated to allow them to continue to live where they are.

"LAS VEGAS — For decades, the vulnerable desert tortoise has led a sheltered existence.

Developers have taken pains to keep the animal safe. It's been protected from meddlesome hikers by the threat of prison time. And wildlife officials have set the species up on a sprawling conservation reserve outside Las Vegas.

But the pampered desert dweller now faces a threat from the very people who have nurtured it.

Federal funds are running out at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990."

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