Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change

America's Resources Must Be Protected from the ESA!

Sick and tired of the Endangered Species Act shutting down businesses, ruining family farms, and costing millions of taxpayer dollars with little results? The Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change could change all that!

Dissatisfaction with the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) has reached fever pitch and it's agreed that the Acts must be improved or changed in order to respect and protect human and private property rights! These overreaching Acts must be fixed and brought into accord with our obligations under international treaties such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and US agreements under the World Trade Organization (WTO).

NEW ADDITION: Jan. 17, 2002: Download your registration form here for the Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change Conference, May 18-22, 2002 (PDF format). POSTPONED UNTIL 2003 - STAY POSTED FOR DETAILS!

PRESS RELEASE: Oct. 17, 2001: Alliance for America Kicks Off Its Exciting "Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change 2002".

Contact: The Alliance for America Campaign and Conference Committee, PO Box 449, Caroga Lake, NY 12032; Tel.: 518-835-6702; Fax: 518-835-2527; www.allianceforamerica.org; afa@allianceforamerica.org
Join the Alliance for America's Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change as we build a Noah's Ark for the 21st Century, starting with a major overhaul of the ESA and the MMPA!

The Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change will host a conference for educational and solution-based discussions, allowing all interested stakeholders to become fully aware, educated and involved in developing the campaign. Whether your community is rural or urban, if you want the following, come work with us!

1. to become fully aware, educated and involved in developing new legislative initiatives to revamp the ESA and MMPA;
2. to discuss recent court decisions and learn more about possible legal approaches to stop "animals vs. people" litigation and endless rounds of conflict;
3. to promote solution-based policies that provide for long-term, science-based management to function independently of politics.

The Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change will:
  • fully and completely respect human rights and property rights.
  • support ecosystem change as natural.
  • recognize man's role in enhancing natural change with management, reducing nature's destructiveness and increasing her productiveness.
  • ensure that science-based management is the tool of choice.
  • support a long-term focus.
  • respect local custom, culture and control.
  • force the multi-million dollar enviro industry,which currently enjoys non-profit status, to share a percentage of the gross for hands-on work protecting species and habitat through cooperative agreements at the local level.
  • restrict high-priced lawyers siphoning off money that should be used for science and management.
  • severely restrict the application of taxonomy.
  • minimize the amount of habitat set aside for conservation, and ensure that impacted businesses and landowners are fully compensated.
  • reward landowners with tax breaks for ensuring the abundance of sub-stocks and sub-substocks of creatures not listed under the ESA, and forge agreements that first allow full use and control over private property as the choice of the landowner.
  • recognize that sustainable use and sustainable trade in the Earth's flora and fauna is key to maintaining open space.
  • tear down trade barriers that cannot be justified in terms of conservation.

Contact the Alliance for America to become part of the Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change and help build the Noah's Ark for the 21st Century!

And join the Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change conference in Washington, DC, May 18-22, 2002!

Click here for your Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change Conference registration form (PDF format) POSTPONED UNTIL 2003 - STAY POSTED FOR DETAILS!

Click here for an Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change flyer to print out, copy and distribute. Spread the word! (PDF format)

Also available: "It Is Illegal in the U.S. to Own One of These Plush Toys - Can You Guess Which One?" flyer specifically addressing the shortcomings of the MMPA. (PDF format)


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If you could change the ESA and MMPA today, what would you recommend?

You are the stewards, the caretakers, the resource providers, the owners of productive property. We want you to help us with the Abundant Species Act Campaign for Change! We are soliciting your comments on what wording you'd like included in the Noah's Ark for the 21st Century, the Abundant Species Act Campaign.

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Conference Accommodation

Venue: Holiday Inn Capitol At Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Tel: (202) 479-4000
Holiday Inns: (800) 465-4329.
Block for sleeping rooms: May 18-23.
Special room rates: $139 single; $149 double, triple, quad. For special rates, reservations must be received on or before Apr. 2, 2002.


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Links and Resources

Latest additions:
Interim Report from the Committe e on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin, National Research Council, February 2002.

Reading: Klamath Plan Backs Irrigation The Oregonian, Jan. 29, 2002.

Reading: Science, Politics Uneasy Partners The Oregonian, Jan. 23, 2002.

Recommended website: Property Rights Research "If God and Country and family are your top priorities, you'll like this site!"

Endangered Species Act (ESA) with text.

Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) with text.

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) with text.

HR 2364: Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation Incentive Act of 1995.


Grassroots ESA Coalition Reproduced from the website of the National Wildlife Institute.

Individuals, Liberty and the Environment : The American Conservation Ethic Reproduced from the website of the National Wildlife Institute.