Tell Your PA Representative to Protect Pennsylvania’s Critical Wildlife Habitat

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

Pennsylvania is blessed to be home to incredible native species. From our elk, bobcats and black bears to the millions of songbirds that cross the Commonwealth during their annual migration, we have stunning wildlife that call Pennsylvania home. But our critters are threatened by development that chops up habitat, putting our ecosystems at risk and making it harder for wildlife to forage, migrate and mate.¹

Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53565 to tell your state representative: Let’s protect Pennsylvania’s critical wildlife habitat.

This fragmentation forces wildlife onto our roads, causing dangerous accidents — Pennsylvania regularly tops the list for car crashes with wildlife each year.²

The good news is that a bipartisan group of state legislators have introduced a proposal to help protect Pennsylvania’s critical wildlife habitat and halt fragmentation of the places that Pennsylvania species call home.

Ask your state representative to support this important initiative to protect habitat for Pennsylvania’s wildlife.

It couldn’t come at a better time: Congress recently authorized over $350 million to fund projects that reconnect habitat and keep wildlife off our roads.³ By passing the proposal being put forth in the Pennsylvania legislature, it will better position the Keystone State to tap into these funds and protect our own state’s wildlife and habitat.

Sign our petition in support of this initiative to protect Pennsylvania’s wildlife habitat.

1. Alex Petersen and Claire Elias, “Reconnecting Nature: How Wildlife Connectors Can Help Save Species,” PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, August 31, 2021.
2. “How likely are you to have an animal collision?,” State Farm Insurance, last accessed February 17, 2023.
3. Michael Doyle, “State and Federal Funds Fuel More Wildlife Crossing,” E&E News, February 16, 2023.