{ACTION} Stop the polar bear's slide towards extinction
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Judy Reed
Dec 18, 2009, 7:02:29 PM12/18/09
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LETTER: Stop the polar bear's slide towards extinction
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
United States Department of the Interior
1849 C. Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20240
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Re: Stop the polar bear's slide towards extinction
Dear Secretary Salazar,
I commend you for proposing a strong designation of critical habitat for the polar bear in America's Arctic. However, I urge you to expand and strengthen this designation in the months ahead. Many essential habitat areas, both occupied and unoccupied, remain unprotected. For example, critical habitat protections must extend to the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as all other coastal lands areas where polar bears den.
Meanwhile, I am alarmed that even as you act to protect polar bears, you have approved two permits to allow Shell Oil to drill exploratory wells in both the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. This industrial activity would put polar bears at even greater risk, and also threaten whales, walruses, seals and all Arctic wildlife. No technology exists to clean up spilled oil in icy waters.
Numerous scientists, Arctic residents and policy experts agree that there must be a timeout on all leasing, drilling and exploration activities until a comprehensive precautionary conservation and development plan -- based on sound science and traditional knowledge --is developed and implemented. The Commerce Department recently adopted this approach in approving a plan that prohibits fishing in the Arctic Ocean until more science can be gathered in the region showing that this activity will not be detrimental. Please do everything in your power to stop the polar bear's slide toward extinction by extending its critical habitat and rejecting harmful industrialization of that habitat.
Sincerely,
Your name and full address
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Judy Reed
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LETTER: Stop the polar bear's slide towards extinction
Cyberact: Prepared letter on line (may be edited):
<https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1665&autologin=true&>
or send directly (edited sample below)
Info Source: NRDC
~~~Please Personalize Sample Letter~~~> unedited/Judy.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
United States Department of the Interior
1849 C. Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20240
phone: (202) 208-3100
Home Page: <http://www.doi.gov/?src=>
<web...@ios.doi.gov >
Web Email: <http://www.doi.gov/contact.html>
Email: <Secretary_of...@ios.doi.gov>
Re: Stop the polar bear's slide towards extinction
Dear Secretary Salazar,
I commend you for proposing a strong designation of critical habitat for the polar bear in America's Arctic. However, I urge you to expand and strengthen this designation in the months ahead. Many essential habitat areas, both occupied and unoccupied, remain unprotected. For example, critical habitat protections must extend to the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as all other coastal lands areas where polar bears den.
Meanwhile, I am alarmed that even as you act to protect polar bears, you have approved two permits to allow Shell Oil to drill exploratory wells in both the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. This industrial activity would put polar bears at even greater risk, and also threaten whales, walruses, seals and all Arctic wildlife. No technology exists to clean up spilled oil in icy waters.
Numerous scientists, Arctic residents and policy experts agree that there must be a timeout on all leasing, drilling and exploration activities until a comprehensive precautionary conservation and development plan -- based on sound science and traditional knowledge --is developed and implemented. The Commerce Department recently adopted this approach in approving a plan that prohibits fishing in the Arctic Ocean until more science can be gathered in the region showing that this activity will not be detrimental. Please do everything in your power to stop the polar bear's slide toward extinction by extending its critical habitat and rejecting harmful industrialization of that habitat.
Sincerely,
Your name and full address
~~~~~~~end~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
Judy Reed
AnimalVoices
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