Hi John,
T he deadline to have your year-end gift matched is just one day away, so I’ll keep this quick: you already know that the Boundary Waters is special. But did you know that it has a unique role in the climate and biodiversity extinction crisis?

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This month, a pivotal agreement to protect 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 was made by roughly 190 nations, aiming to halt a dangerous decline in biodiversity. But on the heels of this sweeping deal to protect nature and our planet, pro-toxic copper mining proponents are pushing to create an industrial mining zone in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters. This would be an ecological disaster .
This would significantly exacerbate climate change because destruction of boreal forest for industrial mining is a double whammy — the release of much of that carbon into the atmosphere and the loss of the capacity of the land to take up carbon in the future.

The Boundary Waters remains essential for mitigating the impacts of climate change on a global scale:

The Boundary Waters and its greater 4.3 million acre wild ecosystem is one of the six most important regions in the lower 48 states critically necessary for adaptation, resilience, and biodiversity.

The region is a natural carbon sink — with its boreal forests storing more carbon than any other ecosystem on earth!

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We must protect this exceptional ecological defense against climate change disaster. Can I count on you to make a year-end gift to fuel our work to protect this Wilderness?
Give the Boundary Waters the protection it deserves—protection that doesn’t waver— until midnight tomorrow, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar. [[link removed]]

For the Wilderness,
Becky Rom
National Chair
Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters
Vice Chair, Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness
P.S. Protect in the future of our Wilderness and our planet by making a year-end gift today. Double your impact before tomorrow, December 31. [[link removed]]

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