Dear John,
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This Giving Tuesday, help save Tongass National Forest: Donate $27 or more and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar!
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The Trump administration wants to hand over millions more acres of America's publicly owned lands to corporate interests and industrialization -- this time, in Alaska's unspoiled Tongass National Forest,
We need to act quickly to save the Tongass! Rush a $27 Giving Tuesday donation to Friends of the Earth. Your donation will be matched up to $150,000!
Towering spruce and cedar trees up to 1000 years old. Ice-fields and mighty glaciers. Snow-capped mountain peaks. Rivers and fjords flowing among thousands of islands. The Tongass National Forest is the largest and most pristine forest in the country -- and the largest remaining temperate rainforest in the world. It is a sweeping expanse of rugged wilderness unlike anything else.
Nicknamed “The Amazon of America,” this ancient, 17-million-acre old-growth forest teems with rare wildlife -- Sitka blacktail deer, wolves, black and brown bears, moose, and mountain goats. The waterways shelter porpoises, seals, minke and killer whales, sea otters, and an abundance of fish, including all five species of pacific salmon. More bald eagles live in this region than in any other place in the world.
These resources are the foundation of the way of life for the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people, who have been at home in this forest for over 10,000 years. All this is now under threat, as Trump’s United States Forest Service just opened this forest up to massive logging and industrial development.
This Giving Tuesday, donate $27 or whatever you can to help stop corporations from destroying the Tongass Forest: Donate now and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $150,000!
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This fall, Trump’s Forest Service opened more than nine million acres of Tongass National Forest to loggers. Now, these companies will be able to build roads through the rainforest and begin to clear-cut the thousand-year-old red and yellow cedar, Sitka spruce, and Western hemlock trees that make this national forest so crucial in the fight against climate change.
Our forests are indeed a critical line of defense against the climate crisis -- the Tongass alone stores more than 10% of all carbon consumed by America’s national forests. That’s why they call it “the lungs of the country.”
For the Indigenous communities that call the forest home, the rollback not only threatens the forest, it endangers their way of life and the wildlife habitats that they depend on for survival.
Frankly, the only ones who benefit from destroying our forests are giant corporations.
We’re running out of time to restore protections for the Tongass and stop the destruction of forests -- and we need your help.
Help fight the destruction of our forests and the communities and wildlife that depend on them: This Giving Tuesday, Donate $27 or more before it’s too late!
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In a world of increasing climate impacts, our wild places are among our most important defenses against climate change. When politicians side with polluters rather than the people, it is our communities that suffer for it. We need to stand up against those who are trying to roll back environmental protections and make these crises worse, from Alaska’s Tongass Forest and Arctic Refuge, to the Gulf Coast.
We’re going up against huge corporations and their powerful cronies in government -- a daunting task. But with Friends of the Earth Members like you at our side, I know we can win this fight and protect our climate and wild places. We have a comprehensive plan to safeguard our public lands, prevent climate chaos, and support communities on the front lines of this fight:
- We’ve sent thousands of comments to the USDA demanding that it protect the Tongass from mining and logging. This same strategy stopped the destruction of several of our national monuments in recent years.
- We’ve launched lawsuits to protect some of America’s most iconic wild spaces and public lands, and the communities and species that rely on them. This includes the Arctic Refuge.
- We’re supporting allies in Congress to pass the Roadless Area Conservation Act to restore protections for the Tongass and ensure that roadless forests across the country are protected from threats like this.
- We’re pushing Members of Congress to go on the record taking strong stances against destructive megaprojects. Now, we’re building support for a broader approach to phase out fossil fuels and rein in Big Industry once and for all.
When we work together, we can do just about anything. But we’re running out of time to prevent the worst impacts of climate chaos. We’ve got to act fast, before our most iconic wild places and the biodiversity they support disappear forever -- and communities around the world are left with poisoned air, polluted water, scarred land, and an unlivable planet.
John, make a $27 Giving Tuesday contribution to Friends of the Earth today, and help protect our forests, climate, and communities. Your gift will be doubled, up to $150,000!
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Standing with you,
Nicole Ghio,
Senior fossil fuels program manager,
Friends of the Earth
