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On this Earth Day 2024, we’re calling attention to the fact that America’s grasslands are vanishing at an alarming rate.

These are the prairies, savannas, glades, and sage brush steppe lands in our own backyard communities. These ecosystems protect our waters, soils, and climate. And as this grassland habitat disappears, so do the wildlife populations dependent upon them.

Today, more than two dozen conservation organizations have joined forces to underscore the importance of grasslands habitat conservation. Please visit MapForGrasslands.org to learn about the magnitude of impact this habitat loss has had on 15 iconic grassland-dependent wildlife species, ranging from birds to mammals and fish to insects.

We need to act quickly to conserve and restore North America’s native grasslands and sagebrush shrub-steppe while supporting ranchers, farmers, Tribal Nations, sportsmen and women, and rural communities. An investment in North America’s grassland and sagebrush shrub-steppe ecosystems through a new North American Grasslands Conservation Act will drive voluntary, science-based efforts to conserve these ecosystems while supporting working lands conservation in order to sequester carbon and prevent further loss of grassland and sagebrush wildlife.

Want to help? We invite you to tell your members of congress to fully support and help pass the North American Grasslands Act via our coalition’s one-step submission form HERE.