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Polar bears are beginning to settle in for the winter – and if this deadly Big
Oil invasion moves forward, some won’t survive to see the spring.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to one of the most imperiled polar
bear populations in the world. But the Bureau of Land Management is rushing
approvals for seismic testing to find oil and gas on the Refuge’s coastal plain,
threatening the habitat these bears need to survive.

In honor of Polar Bear Week, help us fight back against this industrial threat
to polar bears!

Polar bears and other arctic wildlife are under attack by oil companies and
their friends in the administration. Help put the brakes on the oil invasion
with an urgent gift right now!
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As you read this, winter is descending on the Arctic. This is the time when
pregnant mother polar bears dig out snow caves for themselves and their cubs to
be protected from the coldest months.

But those dens could become graves if seismic testing moves forward.

90,000-pound “thumper trucks” used for seismic exploration will send shockwaves
through the landscape that can cause mother bears to abandon dens, which is
harmful to the mother bear and fatal to her cubs. These massive trucks and other support vehicles could also roll over polar bear
dens and crush hibernating polar bears and their cubs to death.

Seismic exploration will also assault this habitat with airplanes, airstrips,
fuel stations, camps with up to 180 workers. – and noise and pollution that
threaten these bears’ ability to hunt, travel, rest, hibernate and raise cubs.

The Arctic Refuge – once a serene polar landscape – would be scarred forever by
industrial exploitation.

Arctic wildlife is in grave danger. Help protect polar bears and other wildlife
from this industrial invasion with your emergency gift right now!
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The Arctic Refuge is the jewel in the crown of America’s wildlife refuge system,
and part of the living legacy we leave to future generations. Invading the
Refuge for oil would destroy that legacy. Expanding fossil fuel development is the wrong move at the wrong time –
especially where it will cost vulnerable polar bears their lives.

We can’t give up on these polar bears. Please – make your emergency gift today
to fight back against Big Oil’s reckless hunt for profit in the Arctic Refuge!

Give to Save Polar Bears
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Thank you in advance for your support of imperiled wildlife!

Sincerely,

Jamie Rappaport Clark

President, Defenders of Wildlife

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