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The clock is ticking on Earth Day—which means time is running out to take part in our 5X Match and have a greater impact on the fight to protect our country’s most vulnerable public lands.
Donate right now and your gift of any amount will instantly multiply 5X—matched by a generous supporter to go five times as far to defend the priceless public lands and threatened wildlife that we hold most dear.
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For Immediate Review:
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2023 Earth Day Challenge Status:
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Goal: $500,000
Suggested Gift: $5
Deadline: MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
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Your generous gift today will immediately strengthen The Wilderness Society’s work to protect critical ecosystems like the Arctic—a vital region that’s increasingly under threat from oil and gas companies:
- In The Western Arctic, the Willow Project—ConocoPhillips’ plan for a huge oil-development project—is estimated to release more than 280 million metric tons of greenhouse gas over a 30-year period. This is a climate bomb that will harm local Indigenous communities and guarantee decades of greenhouse gas emissions when the world should be moving away from fossil fuels. So, we’re taking the government to court to stop it.
- In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the ancestral homeland of the Indigenous Gwich’in and Iñupiat Tribal Nations, oil and gas lease sales mandated in 2017 by Trump’s Republican-controlled Congress still threaten to devastate the region. Following the leadership of our Indigenous partners, we’re advocating for the Biden administration to cancel existing leases and adopt a plan to protect the Refuge from future lease sales; applying pressure on major insurance companies—like Liberty Mutual—to make sure they don’t back drilling here; and working to advance national legislation that will permanently protect the refuge from the threat of drilling for generations to come.
Pitch in NOW and your gift goes 5X as far to protect the Arctic and other vital places from fossil fuel development, climate change and more.
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