"The Interior Department is opening up the entire Coastal Plain of the refuge to polluters—at the expense of Indigenous peoples' traditional ways of life, numerous wildlife species, and the climate," reported the NRDC.
Add your name if you want to stop the fossil fuel industry from raping this precious national treasure, while we still can!
"The U.S. Department of the Interior formally opened up Alaska's untouched Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling today, an unprecedented decision that threatens the Gwich'in people's and other Indigenous groups' ways of life in addition to exacerbating both the climate and biodiversity crises.
""This is an egregious intrusion into the sacred lands of the Gwich'in and other Indigenous people," says NRDC president Gina McCarthy.
""It threatens the heart of the largest pristine wildland left in America—the birthing grounds and nursery for the Porcupine caribou herd and home to polar bears, musk oxen, migratory birds, and other precious wildlife," according to the same source.
If you don't take action now, countless species will suffer.
Polar bears could soon be extinct.
They need your help.
We're calling on Secretary David Bernhardt David L. Bernhardt, who is in charge of the U.S. Department of Interior, to do the right thing and close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, and all other forms of exploitation!
Don't you want to save the polar bears, and all the other majestic animals of the arctic?
Then add your name to help put stop Big Oil, before it's too late!
