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rwsanders

(2,585 posts)
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:02 AM Feb 2019

Existing whistleblower program could help save endangered species including the VAQUITA:

NOAA and USFWS have received funding for years to establish a program to reward whistleblowers who report trafficking of protected wildlife:

Read more: http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/missed-opportunity-vaquita-whistleblowers

Save (insert your favorite species here) and the VAQUITA.
Write your representative and ask them to support using existing whistleblower laws to protect wildlife.

https://www.whistleblowers.org/campaigns/empower-global-wildlife-whistleblowers/

Help save the Vaquita. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is the only ones actively removing the gillnets that are literally walls of death.

https://seashepherd.org/campaigns/milagro/

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