quinta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2017

EMERGENCY: Relentless attacks target Arctic & America's wild places

The Trump administration and anti-wildlife members of Congress are relentless in their efforts to ransack every last natural resource from our cherished wild places – and wildlife is paying the ultimate price.
As the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hinges on Congress’ decision on whether to allow drilling in its Coastal Plain, the Trump administration is launching one of the worst assaults on public lands and wildlife in history – by cutting Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by roughly two million acres.
-Jamie
Please give today!

Dear folks,
The fight is on.
Congress is on track to declare the irreplaceable Arctic National Wildlife Refuge open for business for oil and gas drilling by the end of this year.
In a shameful ploy by Congress, the Arctic Refuge’s Coastal Plain is being offered up to ruin by attaching drilling authorization to the tax reform bill that just passed in the Senate. Now all that stands between the refuge and destruction is the negotiations to hammer out finalized legislation.
Every year, the Porcupine caribou herd makes the 400-mile journey to its traditional calving grounds in the biological heart of the Arctic Refuge – the Coastal Plain. Those grounds would be carved up to make way for oil industry infrastructure.
Imperiled polar bears have become increasingly dependent on the Coastal Plain as a crucial denning area to raise their cubs, since their sea ice habitats are melting more rapidly each year. Soon, mother polar bears with infant cubs could be left with nowhere to go.
Hundreds of species of migratory birds, from all over the planet, find refuge in the Coastal Plain. But their once vast sanctuary could become inhospitable terrain.
Brown bears, wolves, musk oxen, Arctic foxes, wolverines and so many more wildlife species that live in the Arctic Refuge could soon find their home fragmented and taken over by Big Oil.
Turning the Arctic Refuge into a fossil-fuel wasteland is what the Trump administration and anti-wildlife members of Congress see as progress.
This kind of thinking would destroy our wild places, doom wildlife and ultimately jeopardize our own future.
We won’t let oil industry greed destroy this haven for wildlife, and we know you won’t either. Give today and your contribution will have triple the impact for wildlife at risk.
Sincerely,
Jamie Rappaport Clark
Jamie Rappaport Clark
President, Defenders of Wildlife

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