WASHINGTON (AP) - Actress Ashley Judd and TV personality Jeff Corwin are urging Congress to spend $7 billion a year to help safeguard America's wildlife from the impact of global warming.

Judd is a longtime environmental activist. The actress told a House subcommittee on Thursday that climate legislation should not just address the causes of global warming, but also the effects already being seen on the ground. Judd says evidence of global warming is already being felt on her farm in Tennessee.

Corwin is a biologist and a host on the cable channel Animal Planet. He told the committee that up to 30 percent of the world's plant and animal species will be on the brink of extinction if action isn't taken to curb global warming.

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