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This charity can't even file it's taxes on time.It's upper managment is way over paid,and they are nothing but eco-nuts wanting to take away our freedoms to hunt,fish, and enjoy the outdoors...

Just another activist group looking to run roughshod over the freedoms of this country through the use of activist judges, and the farming of taxpayer funds from suing the government. The use of the ESA as a tool to destroy constitutional freedoms is used to the full extent by this org. I have watched as they file lawsuits in direct conflict to the current science, and their position that wolves should be planted in every state only shows how extremist these folks are. They have some very well compensated employee's for people just trying to do the "right' thing.

This is a great organization - very focused and efficient, and very effective at achieving their aims. Their campaigns have ranged from those addressing the larger threats we face today (obvious example being the Deepwater Horizon well), to the focused and local, to the creative, such as distributing endangered species condoms! All around a terrific non-profit, and my favorite, as environmental organizations go.

Please stop these ecoterrorists! Their blockage of the Schultz Pass timber-thinning project in 2007 has resulted in the loss of more than 15,000 acres of habitat in the Schultz fire of June 20, 2010. Granted they had the best of intentions, but the ill conceived legal obstruction has resulted in destruction of the very resource they supposedly wish to protect. The Center for Biological Diversity has as much responsibility for the horrific outcome as the irresponsible camper who abandoned the campfire.

I was introduced to the Center for Biological Diversity by my 12 year old son. He discovered the Center through his interest in environmental issues and a school project to participate in saving Nevada’s Amargosa toads. From there, his own independent research and his admiration of the Center’s work, which is so beautifully documented on their website, led him to initiate a project that would raise money for them. What so impresses me about this organization is that they understand the importance of supporting and nurturing the passions of children who are coming of age and who need a forum and a structure to help channel their not insignificant energy to fix what we are so dangerously close to destroying. The Center treated him with respect and kindness as he organized a benefit concert to raise money to aid in the Gulf disaster. They highlighted his efforts on their Activist Spotlight page and were always responsive and courteous in their communications with him. As I parent, I was apprehensive that his idealism and his fierce desire to find a way to do some good, to be effective in bringing about positive changes, would be thwarted by an encounter with an impersonal bureaucracy. In my mind, this would be the worst possible outcome for him and would have been a very sad omen for all of us who hope to stem the tide of species loss and environmental damage. Thanks to the Center, quite the opposite happened. His concert was a success, he raised well over $1,000 for the Center and, to use a bit of a worn phase –he feels empowered. What this world needs now, more than anything, is youth that feel empowered to do public good and I congratulate the Center for having the wisdom to see the long view.