Call to Action for restoring coastal and estuarine habitats
Scott Richardson ~ 2008-10-07
Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) recently released a Call to Action for the new Administration and Congress. The organization invites people to sign on at thepetitionsite.com.
The purpose of the Call to Action is to unite the habitat restoration community to speak with one voice for the need to make habitat restoration a national priority and to increase the scale and pace of restoring our nation’s coastal and estuarine habitats.
According to RAE:
Our nation’s coasts and estuaries are in serious trouble. The United States has lost 55 million acres of coastal and estuarine habitat along its coastline due to development, pollution, and other human-made and natural causes, and its coastal habitat continues to disappear at a rate of between 1.2 percent and 9 percent a year.
The full petition text is available at thepetitionsite.
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