jkg@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Jamie Gobble) (06/07/90)
Hi, A freind of mine showed me the following notice, and I thought a few of you maybe interested. ---- URGENT IFAW MEMBER ALERT ---- THE WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST SEA TURTLE NESTING AREA IS ABOUT TO BE WIPED OUT BY DEVELOPMENT! Dear IFAW Member: The specter of development is threatening to overrun the most important sea turtle nesting beach in the United States. Please write to Senator Robert C.Byrd, (WV) Chairman of the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, immediately Tell him to support an initial appropriation of ten million dollars to purchase land for the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge on Florida's central east coast. The vote on this matter is imminent, so please act immediately. Explain to Senator Byrd that the land is already up for sale and in danger of being bulldozed and developed. If this happens, a national treasure with as many as 12,000 loggerhead turtle nests, 40% of the endangered U.S. green sea turtles, and numerous threatened species of plants and animals will be wiped out. Please contact Senator Byrd TODAY as well as your own senators... tomorrow may be too late. Brian Davies, Founder. Address your letters to: The Honorable Robert C. Byrd, United States Senate, Washington, DC 20510. A letter takes 5 minutes. Extinction is forever. Please write today. * If protected, these nests could produce over ONE MILLION hatchlings per year! ---- The address for IFAW: International Fund for Animal Welfare PO Box 193, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts 02675 ---- end ---- Note: This has been reprinted without permission. Anything I say in my posting is, our course, mine. Jamie Gobble