This was an e-mail that actually showed up in my in-box; I don't know any "Rico Koeberson" person, but if it's on the level, Leonard DiCaprio sounds pretty SERIOUS!
Sorry about the year's delay - it got routed to my spam folder for some reason.
Sorry about the year's delay - it got routed to my spam folder for some reason.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rico Koeberson
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:39 AM
To: Joseph Recipient
Subject: FW: A message from Leonard DiCaprio about protecting bears
The message below, a letter from actor Leonardo DiCaprio urging concerned Americans to help save Yellowstone's last remaining grizzly bears, was sent to you by Rico Koeberson from http://www.savebiogems.org
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Dear Friend,
Will you please protect these fucking bears? I am writing to ask for your help to protect these fucking grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone National Park. The pricks in power keep trying to implement a disastrous plan to repeal the bears' protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Yellowstone's grizzlies have only recently begun to recover from the brink of fucking extinction. It's too fucking soon to remove the safety net that has prevented these fucking bears from disappearing in the first place. That's why it's so important for all Americans all across the country to band together to tell the fucking government that they can stuff their fucking bullshit plan.
To take action, go to the Natural Resources Defense Council's BioGems website at
http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp
What could be a purer icon of the American West and the great wilderness that once covered most of this rugged land, than the fucking grizzly? Grizzlies are also a fucking barometer of the region's health. Healthy bear populations mean a healthy landscape. A big omnivore, a top-of-the-food-chain animal like a fucking grizzly, consumes a lot of resources. The grizzlies don't thrive unless the whole fucking system is thriving. Ergo, you kill off the grizzly - the whole system dies. Simple fucking math, folks.
But so many of these magnificent animals have been killed off and so much of their habitat destroyed that today they live on less than one fucking percent of their former range. That's fucking atrocious. Now there are only between 50 and 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone. That's a tiny fucking number when you consider that as many as 100,000 grizzlies roamed the West just a few fucking hundred years ago!
Stripping endangered species protection from Yellowstone's fucking bears would open their habitat -- vast wild forests around the park -- to large-scale real estate and energy development. It also would allow hunters to fucking kill bears that roam outside the park. The state of fucking Wyoming has already announced plans to allow grizzly bear hunting as soon as the bears are off the endangered species fucking list.
We all hope for a day when grizzly fucking bears truly are recovered and can be removed from the endangered species list. But first we need to make sure that their habitat is fucking protected.
I'm working with the Natural Fucking Resources Defense Council, which is leading the campaign to protect and restore the fucking grizzly bear in the lower 48 states. As the bears sleep through the coldest and darkest months of the year, please join us to ensure that grizzly bears have a healthy landscape to wake up to -- this spring and for many fucking years to come.
Go to NRDC's BioGems website to send a message telling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to leave Yellowstone's grizzlies on the endangered species list:
http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/takeaction.asp
Then I hope you will also forward my fucking message to your friends and family.
Thank you!
Leonardo DiCaprio
Board of Fucking Trustees
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
. . .
BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.savebiogems.org
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