Orcas are starving. Bring down the dams!

Friends, Endangered Southern resident orcas are slipping tragically closer to extinction–just 76 remain. These orcas are starving and need us to act. Support our work to stop Southern resident orcas from vanishing forever with a tax-deductible donation today. Southern resident orcas rely on salmon to exist. These salmon have themselves become endangered due to overfishing, loss of habitat and hydropower dams. On top of that, the orcas are impacted by pollution, particularly PCBs, ship collisions, oil spills, and marine noise. Salmon supplies are so short, and the other impacts are so severe, that half of the baby orcas born between 2014 and 2016 died from starvation, and not a single orca was born in 2017. The situation is dire and our window of time to effect change is very short. The Endangered Species Coalition is working with our partner organizations and activists to save these orcas: we are advocating for the removal of four outdated lower Snake River dams that are stopping salmon from migrating and causing the Southern resident orcas to slowly starve. Please make a 100% tax-deductible donation today to support this campaign to remove these dams and save these orcas and the salmon they rely upon. This urgent and catastrophic situation may only be resolved through pressure on decision makers that can bring down these dams and address their other threats. That is why the Endangered Species Coalition is meeting this challenge. With hundreds of member organizations and tens-of-thousands of activists like you, we can harness the power of grassroots energy and direct it to saving species. We have staff on the ground in Washington working to bring these voices together to save orcas before it is too late. Please support this work with a 100% tax-deductible donation today. Thank you for your commitment to wildlife and wild places. Sincerely, Leda Huta Executive Director Endangered Species Coalition Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Tumblr PS. Links not working? Please support our campaign to save Southern resident orcas and other endangered species with a donation at this URL: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/srkw