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Here is how you can help protect America's Arctic today!
SIGN OUR CALL FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO EXPAND HIS LEGACY OF ARCTIC PROTECTIONS!
President Biden announced a request for information, giving the public an opportunity weigh in and help the Bureau of Land Management identify areas of the Western Arctic that deserve increased or new environmental protections.
Add your name to the letter below, and let our government know that conservation of America’s Western Arctic is essential to climate mitigation, wildlife conservation, and subsistence lifestyles and food security for Alaska Native communities. Together, we can #ProtectTheArctic!
Dear President Biden:
Thank you for recently acting to protect 13 million acres in the Western Arctic. Please build upon this momentum by identifying new areas for protection and conservation values in this irreplaceable landscape
The Western Arctic is home to essential, irreplaceable wildlife that are critical to the more than 40 Alaska Native communities in the region who live a subsistence lifestyle in harmony with America’s largest caribou herd.
This is a very rare opportunity for us to help identify new areas for protection and safeguard additional conservation values in the Western Arctic from expanded development.
We hope you will build on your conservation legacy by further protecting the Western Arctic. New and expanded protections will ensure that the diversity of wildlife and Alaska Native communities in the Western Arctic can thrive for generations to come.
WHAT'S GOING ON? | President Biden has issued a Request For Information for America's Western Arctic. This comes after the administration recently took sweeping steps to increase protections to more than 13 million acres in the American Arctic.
This is an opportunity for the public - like you! - to speak up for new or existing areas in America’s Arctic that deserve increased protections.
Learn more about President Biden’s new regulations for the NPR-A.
WHO IS DOING IT? | President Biden
The request for information is the Biden Administration's way of assessing public opinion and gathering both expert and popular insights and recommendations.
WHY DOES IT MATTER? | America's Arctic is vital to Indigenous Peoples, iconic wildlife and global climate mitigation.
The Arctic is warming 4x faster than the rest of the planet. A healthy Arctic stabilizes the jet stream, reducing extreme weather events like the recent record flooding in Vermont and catastrophic fires across Hawaii and the western US. It's an enormous carbon sink for the entire planet, mitigating the worst impacts of climate change all around the globe. It 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.
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