Make a call, save a seal

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.   ~Edmund Burke 

The Riverhead Foundation relies on just a few grants to help do what we do every year.  One of those grants is the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant.  The John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, or Prescott Grant Program, provides grants to eligible stranding network participants for:

• recovery and treatment/rehabilitation of stranded marine mammals
• data collection from living or dead stranded marine mammal
• facility upgrades, operation costs, and staffing needs directly related to the recovery and treatment of stranded marine mammals and collection of data from living or dead stranded marine mammals

Rescue and stranding programs all over the US apply for portions of this grant to subsidize their budgets.   

The President's Fiscal Year 2013 budget request concerning NOAA did not include funding for the grant at all.  Congress makes the final funding decision when passing funding bills, and that process is just getting started

Please take a moment, whoever you are and wherever you are, to call your Congressperson and tell them to reinstate this portion of the NOAA budget and allow these rescue agencies to continue doing the work that needs to be done to protect and save these endangered species.

Here's some incentive.  Seriously how can you not want to help that face.

I'd call Congress but I don't have opposable thumbs