Help run this ad and save the polar bear - NRDC

[Beaverhausen]

Dear Beaverhausen,

As the Arctic continues to melt, time is running out for polar bears, who could lose 100 percent of their habitat in our lifetime.

Make no mistake: We can still come to their rescue, but we've got to mobilize at least 500,000 Americans over the next 30 days, while the Bush Administration is taking public comments on a plan for polar bear protection.

With your help, that's exactly what we're going to do!

NRDC has produced a gripping TV ad that will sound the alarm about the plight of polar bears -- and let caring Americans speak out with one powerful and effective voice on their behalf.

The ad is ready. But we need to raise $300,000 this week to run the ad for a full 7 days in all 50 states -- and generate overwhelming pressure on the Bush Administration.

You can make it happen. If just 12,000 of our supporters donate $25 each, we will be on the air next week -- all week -- for the sake of polar bear survival!

Click here to view the TV ad and make your donation.
https://secure.nrdconline.org/08/polarbearsos_g

Millions of Americans who care about wildlife do not yet realize that polar bear populations are already suffering the effects of global warming and melting ice: birth rates are falling...fewer cubs are surviving...more bears are drowning.

They don't know that virtually all of the polar bear's summer sea ice could be gone by 2040. They don't know that a human child born 33 years from now could enter a world without polar bears!

But with your help, millions of Americans will know...starting next week.

Our TV ad will make it easy for them to get online and send an Official Citizen Comment to the Bush Administration, demanding that polar bears be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

The result? A national blizzard of Citizen Comments that will greatly increase the odds of polar bears finally winning the protection they need and deserve.

We've only got 30 days to answer the Polar Bear's S.O.S. and save this magnificent species from extinction.

Please make an online contribution that will wake up and rally America before it's too late. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

[hlthe2b]

1. Absolutely heart breaking... I will.

No wonder the Bush* admin is ordering their scientists NOT to mention polar bears...

[rec_report]

2. See this post, btw:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=368994&mesg_id=368994

[Beaverhausen]

3. unbelievable

all the more reason to help get this ad out there.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Kick and a plea for some recs - I think this deserves to be on greatest page

thanks! :hi:

[MasonJar]

5. I gave them $50 yesterday on the phone. Please help if you can!

[danimich1]

6. Just sent them some $$

Thanks for posting this. I hope they can get the ads up. There was a picture in our local paper showing the stranded bears that were going to drown, and it was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

[Beaverhausen]

7. Great!!!

and I know...the thought of all the animals suffering from the effects of global warming is heartbreaking.

[Beaverhausen]

8. Kick for the evening crowd

[danimich1]

9. Double kick!

[Jcrowley]

10. K&R n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Done!

[City Lights]

12. I'm in.

Thanks for posting the link. :hi: