Defenders in Alaska

Key Accomplishments

Defenders worked tirelessly to prevent the state of Alaska from moving forward with a plan to conduct aerial wolf control on Unimak Island, a National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness area at the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. In March of 2011, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced they had chosen not to allow the state’s plan to move forward on the Refuge.

Defenders was a key member of the Alaska Climate Change Conservation NGO Working Group, which focused its efforts on the state’s representatives in the U.S. Congress to educate them on the importance of climate change impacts on Alaska wildlife. We also pushed to have federal land management agencies begin to address climate change as well.

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