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Hi John,
The Trump administration just moved to open up the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — 1.5 million acres of land — to oil and gas leasing.
This latest attack on the wild is one of the largest, most dangerous yet.
It would wreck the refuge, put endangered species in peril, and spell doom for our teetering climate.
This must be fought with everything we've got. Please stand with us now by making a matched gift to the Alaska and Arctic Defense Fund.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to polar bears, caribou herds, wolves, and more than 200 species of birds. It's the last place that should be plundered by greedy corporate interests and ruined with oil wells.
By opening up the coastal plain of the refuge to oil and gas development, Trump and his crew of public land destroyers are threatening one of our country's last great intact wild areas.
If it happens, we could see oil rigs and gas pipes where polar bears den, millions of migratory birds return to nest, and the Porcupine caribou herd births their young each year.
The fossil fuel industry and the politicians who do its bidding have long had the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in their sights.
We've been on guard keeping the oil industry out of this refuge for decades. It’s just one of the reasons the administration is targeting us. It knows how effective we are at winning protection for wildlife and wild places. Saving species and the habitat they need to survive is why the Center exists — and we won't stop.
We're in this fight for the long haul. We can't let Big Oil destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on our watch.
Because threats to wildlife are ongoing, we need you with us every day. Please start a monthly donation to sustain our defense.
For the wild,
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