Defend Starving Polar Bears – Save the Arctic Refuge

  • by: Aaron V
  • recipient: Your members of Congress

Urgent update: Trump just announced his finalized plan to open the pristine, long-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and gas exploration. At a time when climate change is quickly spiraling toward the no-return threshold, Trump still prefers to let his wildlife-murdering fossil fuel buddies destroy this precious refuge. If we don't act fast, these corporations will ruin this once-sacred wildlife haven.

The heart-wrenching video of a starving polar bear on Baffin Island has gone viral.
Unfortunately, while the world weeps, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress used their grotesque 2017 tax bill to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The Arctic Refuge is an amazing habitat for polar bears, as well as the birthing ground of an enormous caribou heard, and home to muskoxen, arctic foxes and 200 species of migratory birds.

In addition to directly jeopardizing the animals that rely upon the Arctic Refuge, the Republican plan to drill also further commits our energy future to more global-warming causing pollution, the number one reason polar bears are endangered. Climate change is already devastating the sea ice habitat that polar bears rely upon, and drilling in the Arctic Refuge will only make our climate crisis worse.

To defend polar bears like the one seen in the tragic viral video, we need to immediately move away from dirty energy sources and embrace a clean energy future. Drilling in the Arctic Refuge would be a huge step in the wrong direction. Tell your member of Congress to protect polar bears and the Arctic and oppose drilling today.

The video of a starving Baffin Island polar bear was captured by photographer Paul Nicklen, supported by National Geographic, on a Sea Legacy expedition.

Update #16 years ago
The GOP budget bill has passed - with Arctic drilling slipped inside as a huge gift to oil corporations. Help us spread the word and fight to protect polar bears, caribou, native tribes – Tell Congress the fight for the Arctic begins today! Read about Arctic drilling and the tax bill here: http://reut.rs/2kARqsC
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