The Trump administration has removed endangered species protections from the gray wolf, a species once persecuted to near-extinction in the US, in a move that has been condemned as premature by conservationists. The wolves have been provided federal protection for more than 45 years but this is no longer needed according to David Bernhardt, the […]
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Petition: Trump Administration Removes Roadless Protections for Tongass National Forest
TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST, ALASKA — “The Roadless Rule was one of the best protections for a climate resilient forest ecosystem—important for birds, fish, and people, now and into the future,” said Natalie Dawson, executive director, Audubon Alaska. “Removing these protections is shortsighted and irresponsible. And the entire process was done without consultation with local Tribes […]
Trump Administration Continues to Defend its Illegal Bird-Killing Policy
WASHINGTON – “It is past time to end this futile attempt to weaken the 100-year-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act,” said Sarah Greenberger, interim chief conservation officer for the National Audubon Society. “We’ve lost 3 billion birds in North America in the last 50 years and two-thirds of those birds are at risk of extinction due […]
Petition: Support the Polar Bear Cub Survival Act
Scientists believe that climate change could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century due to climate change. Sadly, some leaders have made plans to exacerbate the diminishing polar bear population, rather than trying ot save them. Trump’s presidency has been full of rollbacks that severely weaken environmental and wildlife protections. […]
Trump Administration to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forest
America’s largest national forest, Tongass National Forest in Alaska, will be opened up to logging and road construction after the Trump administration finalizes its plans to open up the forest on Friday, according to The New York Times. The plans to open up the forest to logging have been in the works for years. In […]
Petition: Keep Gray Wolves Listed as an Endangered Species
Before they were listed on the Endangered Species List in the 1970s, the northern gray wolf was hunted to the brink of extinction in the U.S. After being recognized as endangered, conservation efforts helped these wolves grow their population and somewhat recover. However, the population is nowhere near stable and they still require a great […]
Petition: Halt Environmental Rollbacks to Save Polar Bears from Extinction
One of the ways that many of us first became aware of and concerned about climate change was through a “Save the Polar Bears” poster that featured a scrawny, scared-looking polar bear on a tiny fragment of ice. It was jarring and upsetting. Teachers would chime in that our grandchildren may never get to see […]
‘There’s nowhere like it’: Alaska’s wildlife refuge fears death by drilling
Biologist George Schaller has traversed the Amazon rainforest, studied lions in the Serengeti and searched for rare antelope in Tibet, but for him nothing quite compares to a vast and little-known wilderness found in the north-eastern reaches of Alaska. Schaller first encountered the region in the 1950s, taking a canoe down the Colville River, a […]