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Hi Friend –
I wanted to reach out to you directly today, because it's Earth Day – a day of deep meaning for environmental advocates like you and me, here at home and around the globe.
As the leader of the most historic grassroots environmental organization in the country, I know exactly what it takes to make the change our planet so desperately needs in the face of the climate crisis. It takes passionate activists, driven volunteers, committed donors – and you, Friend.
I'm asking for your support today because this is the one day of the year when we can ALL do something important for the planet we call home – and because we can't build the healthier, safer environment we all deserve without you and your grassroots support.
Until tonight’s midnight deadline, every $1 you pitch in to the Earth Month Challenge will do twice as much to help the Sierra Club:
Save endangered species from the edge of extinction. Earlier this month, we filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is refusing to restore critical Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies region. Defenseless wolves are being brutally killed by hunters and poachers using cruel tactics like snaring, baiting, and night shooting, posing a massive threat to the species' survival. We need your support to stop the killing and put more pressure on Congress to strengthen funding for the ESA, one of the most successful conservation laws in our nation's history.
Protect and expand our magnificent public lands. We celebrated a major win last week when the Biden administration announced new land management guidelines, for our nation's largest land manager, that will put conservation on equal footing with development. But anti-environment lawmakers working on behalf of their corporate fossil fuel allies are already preparing for a vote that would roll back this critical progress. We're fighting back to stop them, and we must keep our grassroots campaigns going strong to defend the millions of acres of land still threatened by climate change and fossil fuel development.
Defend the Arctic from the threat of oil and gas extraction. Even as record-breaking heat devastates this fragile ecosystem, the fossil fuel industry is desperately trying to tear it open for oil and gas development – posing a deadly threat to endangered wildlife. Under enormous pressure from Sierra Club members and other activists, the Biden administration canceled all existing leases in the Arctic Refuge last year, and last week announced new measures protecting more than 10 million acres of land in the western Arctic. But more oil lease sales are mandated to happen in the Refuge before the end of this year, and we need to ramp up our efforts to ensure no corporations bid on these precious, irreplaceable lands.
Earth Day is an important moment to appreciate the wondrous nature around us – but it's much more than that, too. It's an opportunity to come together and take meaningful, bold action for the plants and animals we love, for the wild places we cherish, and for the communities we call home.
