The vast interconnected waterways and forests of the United States’ most visited Wilderness are at risk from a proposed copper mine on waterways that flow through the heart of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park.
For the first time since our inception in 1989, we are changing how we invest in key partners working to protect our most iconic landscapes.
These are precedence-setting campaigns. Protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Boundary Waters and Bears Ears means putting Indigenous rights over fossil fuel development, recreation and wildlife habitat over extraction, and intrinsic value over short-term gain.
Over the past four years, there have been many attacks on America’s public lands, but one of the most egregious was the reduction of Bears Ears National Monument in December, 2017. The fate of this remarkable landscape has tossed back and forth in ever-changing political winds.
In 2020, Conservation Alliance funding helped 12 projects cross the finish line. These projects permanently protect 11,594 acres (including 483 giant sequoias!), 1.3 river miles, and one climbing area.
We’d like to share an update about our journey to advance justice, equity, diversity and inclusion – or JEDI – at The Conservation Alliance.
Today, the Trump administration announced its plan to hold a lease sale for rights to drill in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Science, outdoor community lands massive win against Pebble mine for Bristol Bay, Alaska.
The Public Lands Defense Fund (PLDF) was launched in 2017 in anticipation of attacks on our public lands system during the Trump Administration.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is under threat like never before. Below, Andy Moderow shares how Alaska Wilderness League (AWL) hopes to hold the line until January 20, 2021.
