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!

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!

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!