The Fishers, IN community in the last 15 years has been explosive with it's development. This growth has catalyzed significant change, with notable benefits. However, the aggressiveness of the expansion has come with a detrimental cost to our wildlife and natural habitats. There is a difference between growing a city, and growing a city with an intentional strategy that is cognizant of conservation. It is possible.

This is a call to Mayor Scott Fadness of Fishers to consider our ecosystems over greed, as we over-expand the human footprint. This is a plea to establish parameters and limitations around building, and investing money in wildlife and land conservation, or better yet, wildlife sanctuaries to protect animals around us. We can do both! If other cities can do it, why can't we? Your duties to the financial well-being and growth of the city do not absolve you from your central responsibility to protect and preserve animals and nature around us. 

This is a petition to establish more land conservations, or a wildlife sanctuary in Fishers. We can do better, and we can be a role model for other fast growing communities around us as well. 

Examples of the impact of over building, bulldozing, tearing down of trees and overall habitat destruction/human intervention is evident in Fishers on a compounding daily basis. 

For years now, by Exit 5 in Fishers, a swan couple has made a retention pond their home. The last two years there has been a lot of bulldozing and adding of new corporations. To anyone who has enjoyed their presence, their beauty was magnificent. The swan pair had two babies this spring, nurturing and protecting them through this summer. One of the swans was hit and killed by a truck. Swans mate for life - and they go through a human-like mourning process. As we continue to expand, we simultaneously ruin the habitats and livelihood of nature around us.

Nature is a gift, and if we turn a blind eye now, there will be a day where we can't successfully coexist without it. 

Please consider signing this petition to encourage our Mayor Scott Fadness of Fishers to make a positive change that will benefit us all. 

Thank you!