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Hello Supporter,
What do musk oxen and woolly bear caterpillars have in common?
The answer is that they're both furry and need a champion like YOU to defend them from renewed and extensive attacks on their Arctic home!* Make an emergency gift in these early days of 2024 to help.
When you’re frozen half the year like a woolly bear caterpillar, you’re a biological wonder, but you can’t flee if a truck starts trundling down the landscape. It’s a guaranteed annihilation. And, if you’ve got amazing cold-weather coping skills like the mighty musk oxen, you dig through the snow to find food in the winter. But if snow becomes rain which freezes into ice, it’s much harder to get to your food. Development disturbances that shrink your available landscape or force you to burn extra energy in avoidance only makes things worse.
Yet last month, pro-drilling allies held a hearing and moved forward H.R. 6285, a bill that would mandate that oil and gas development take priority over public health, environmental protections and stewardship of cultural resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The bill would also reverse the Biden administration’s proposed rule to protect 13 million acres of designated Special Area lands in the Western Arctic. This is in addition to the threat of the new industrial Ambler Road that would further harm Arctic wildlife to the south.
Supporter, extractive industries are pushing full steam ahead. Creatures large and small are at risk. This is why champions like you are so important! Please donate today to give these animals a fighting chance.
Your donation will fuel the fight against threats like ConocoPhillips’ drilling plans in the Western Arctic, the renewed efforts to drill in the Arctic Refuge, and other development like the dangerous proposed Ambler Road that would sever the migration route of the Western Arctic caribou herd.
Thank you for your consideration.
With gratitude,
Alaska Wilderness League
* Musk oxen and woolly bear caterpillar furs handle the Arctic cold differently. Caterpillar fur helps control the caterpillar's state of frozen hibernation, and the musk ox's amazing two-layered fur coat helps prevent it from freezing. |