WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representative Adelita S. Grijalva (D-AZ) today introduced the Extinction Prevention Act, legislation that would provide much-needed funding for some of the country's most imperiled yet vastly underfunded wildlife species.
"This legislation recognizes that saving wildlife from extinction requires more than just rhetoric-real resources are essential," said Blumenthal. "Endangered species and their habitats can be sustained, but only if we back words with action."
"As the loss of biodiversity accelerates at an alarming rate, we cannot afford to keep treating conservation as an afterthought," said Grijalv...