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What Are Postcards to Policymakers ?
Postcards to Policymakers is a new project launching for Endangered Species Day, May 16th, 2025. This project is designed for you, to help you advocate for wildlife and plants. This project is created for your community, to help you come together for fun postcard writing events.
We’ve assembled a set of free, downloadable postcards created by artist-activists, and useful toolkits where you can learn more about imperiled wildlife and plants. Postcards to Policymakers species range from monarch butterflies to grizzly bears with more postcards coming later this year.
Join the movement calling for continued strong Endangered Species Act protections and funding to protect species with Postcards to Policymakers.
Follow the easy steps below to participate
Policymakers are people holding elected political office. They are your elected officials, and they make decisions about important policies such as wildlife and plant protections and funding for imperiled species recovery. Anyone can send postcards to policymakers, including your House Representative and your two Senators, as well as to your Governor. The postcards are most effective when sent to the person who represents you. All Members of Congress, regardless of their state or district, make decisions about national laws that affect wildlife across the entire country.
You can start by finding your elected officials here.
Enter your physical address and you will find links to your policymakers’ websites. Go to their website, where you will find contact details, including their mailing address to use on Postcards to Policymakers.
Policymakers want to hear from their constituents, the people they represent. Postcards to Policymakers will help you communicate the message that wildlife and plants matter and that species protections are important – and that this matters now, more than ever.
Download your choice of postcards from the options below. Send the image file to your local printer for pick-up, or send the image to a print company who ships directly to you.
Once you have the printed postcards you can write your policymaker. Find out how to look up their address under the ‘Who Are Policymakers’ tab on this page, or click here to look up who your policymakers are and find their mailing address on their website.
In the toolkits below that accompany the postcard for each species, you will find info about the issues affecting the animal or plant. We have provided a suggested prompt to get you started. Write your message, and send your postcard to the policymaker.
You can amplify your impact with these ideas for your community
- Invite people to gather for a postcard writing party
- If you are part of a local non-profit group or chapter, host a postcard event with your group
- Pair the postcard writing party with a film – check out suggested films here
- Host a table for postcard writing at community events
- Share postcards and this toolkit with your friends, family, and colleagues
- Hold a postcard event at your college or university campus
You are invited to show the impact of your work by sharing pictures – of you writing and sending postcards, or your postcard parties, on Instagram.
Tag ESC @endangeredspeciescoalition
Click the links to download postcards and toolkits
North Atlantic Right Whale
PROTECT NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES – POSTCARD
North Atlantic Right Whales – TOOLKIT
Southern Resident Orcas and Chinook Salmon
Recover Orca and Salmon – POSTCARD
Southern Resident Orcas and Chinook Salmon – TOOLKIT
