In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain, pregnant polar bears build dens in the snow to give birth and nurse their young.1     Seismic testing puts mother bears and cubs in danger. The polar bear mothers and cubs denning in the Arctic Refuge could soon face the terrifying threat of seismic surveys, which have a 1 in 5 chance of killing or […]

The Trump administration is barreling ahead with approvals for destructive oil and gas drilling in the sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — some of the best polar bear denning habitat in the country.1       The Threat to Polar Bears and the Arctic Make no mistake. Drilling is bad for wildlife and the environment. Land near the Arctic Refuge bears the scars from fossil fuel […]

Help convince a Houston-based oil company to leave our threatened polar bears alone.       The Threat to Polar Bears The Beaufort Sea. America’s threatened polar bears den along its coast. The bears use its increasingly rare sea ice to hunt.1 And, soon, a Texas-based oil company could ruin this special place. Hillcorp, headquartered in Houston, just received approval from the Trump administration to drill within […]