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America's Arctic is facing an onslaught of threats from public land giveaways, fast-tracked oil and gas development, foreign mining interests, and attacks on Indigenous sovereignty over their ancestral homelands.

Protect The Arctic works to connect you to the most effective, timely action where public voices can make a difference. But that’s not all! Behind the scenes, we work alongside a coalition of more than 65 NGOs and tribal organizations to support communications, policy work, and litigation to protect America’s Arctic.

When you take action to help safeguard the American Arctic, you’re part of decades of bipartisan work by politicians, scientists, activists, outdoor enthusiasts, hunters, Native land protectors, educators, and so many more to preserve some of the wildest, intact, and climate-critical public lands in America.

Let your Senators and Representative know that you care about what happens in America's Arctic:

I am writing to voice my deep concern about the multiple threats currently facing the American Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Western Arctic Reserve (NPR-A). The push to greenlight oil and gas development across our Arctic public lands, and the recent fast-tracking of the foreign-owned Ambler Road mining corridor development despite the objections of numerous Alaska Native communities, is an assault on our public lands as well as the rights of American citizens to participate in decision-making about our resources and natural landscapes.

Decades of bipartisan work has helped safeguard one of our most pristine and climate-critical landscapes. The Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to give away millions of acres of public land to corporations have repeatedly failed to deliver the promised economic returns, and short-sells Alaskans, along with every American who values our public lands for more than private profits.

As your constituent, I ask you to take every possible action to protect our pristine Arctic public lands, to demand transparency and accountability around development and leasing plans in this fragile region, and to respect the voices of Alaska Native communities as well as concerned Americans from across the country.

America’s Arctic should be protected as an iconic and vital part of our natural heritage. I urge you to do everything in your power as my elected representative to protect the Arctic.

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WHAT'S GOING ON? | America's Arctic is currently facing multiple threats putting its pristine landscape and waters, Native communities, and wildlife at risk.

American taxpayers are already $1 BILLION in the hole on President Trump’s previous attempt to sell off the Arctic Refuge (ANWR) to the highest bidder to afford massive tax breaks for the country’s wealthiest. Now the Willow Complex in America’s Western Arctic is also falling short, projected to cost Alaska’s taxpayers more than they’ll get back from ConocoPhillips.

Despite this record of economic failures, the Administration continues to fast-track corporate giveaways across America’s Arctic, from the Willow complex to the proposed Ambler Road mining corridor.

Enough is enough. Our public lands and wild places are worth more than being irreparably damaged by corporate welfare giveaways.

WHO IS DOING IT? | A combination of government and corporate interests, including the Department of the Interior, the State of Alaska, and corporations like ConocoPhillips and Trilogy Metals, LLC.

With multiple assaults on Arctic public lands, how to best take action is a rapidly moving target. You can always visit ProtectTheArctic.org to find up-to-date guidance on where your voice matters RIGHT NOW.

WHY DOES IT MATTER? | America's Arctic is too important to Planet Earth to be gifted to corporate interests.

FIRST, oil and gas profits are already at record highs. The administration's push to drill the American Arctic while derailing renewable energy projects and removing solar and wind power from federal energy programs is a blatant corporate handout at the expense of everyday Americans. Our federal agencies have a responsibility to ensure the government works FOR its citizens. Instead, it's actively helping one of the wealthiest and most polluting industries in the world at the expense of the American people...

SECOND, the Arctic is warming 4x faster than the rest of the planet. A healthy Arctic stabilizes the jet stream, reducing extreme weather events. It's an enormous carbon sink for the entire planet, mitigating the worst impacts of climate change all around the globe.

Recent natural disasters like the devastation caused across Western Alaska by Typhoon Halong only underscore how much is at stake, and how much coastal and Indigenous communities bear the burden of our collective action.

The Western Arctic is the ancestral homeland of Indigenous Peoples who depend upon access to clean water and unpolluted resources for traditional livelihoods and food security. And it is vital habitat for American wildlife like polar bears, bowhead whales, caribou, and wolves.

Watch the video below to learn more on how America's Arctic impacts everyone on Earth, and and explore the entire 5-part series of 1 minute videos for how the Arctic impacts global biodiversity, economies, climate and food webs.

OK! WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT? | Educate yourself and others! Visit our Take Action page often to find the latest guidance, and follow us on social media to updates in real time.

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