WORLD WORLDWIDE US USA North America - care2PETITIONS - Endangered pygmy rabbits and their habitats need protection

 

This Easter, protect the world's tiniest bunny species from climate change. The World's Tiniest Rabbits Are Going Extinct and Need Our Help Sign Now    Dear friends, The tiniest bunnies in the world, the pygmy rabbits, make their home in North America. Unlike the Easter Bunny, they don't carry around baskets of chocolates and eggs. Instead, they burrow underground to make tiny little hobbit-holes for themselves to live in.   In order to survive, they rely on shrub-covered sagebrush habitats. But their sagebrush habitats are disappearing — and so are pygmy rabbits. They are now officially listed as an Endangered Species due to their near-extinction status. The pygmy rabbit once lived in a 100-million-acre historic range that spanned portions of 13 U.S. states. Today, it exists in only 10% of this range, and even surviving there is getting more difficult. The main threats to the species' survival are climate change, fossil fuel extraction projects, human construction, and agriculture. With the environment rapidly changing as rising greenhouse gas emissions wreak havoc on global weather patterns and overall temperature, sagebrush is dying off quickly, leaving the rabbits' homelands decimated. As an officially-listed endangered species, pygmy rabbits and their ecosystems deserve more protection in order to keep them safe from disappearing altogether.  The U.S. government must take action to limit oil and gas development and fight climate change by investing in green energy instead, now! Sign the petition!   Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. The U.S. government must keep these adorable little endangered creatures safe from the dangers of climate change. Sign the petition.      Sign Now