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Approaches to Adapting to Alaska's Rapidly Warming Climate workshop videos are live!

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Approaches to Adapting to Alaska's Rapidly Warming Climate workshop videos are live!

Watch the recordings of the virtual workshop, Approaches to Adapting to Alaska’s Rapidly Warming Climate, now!

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BioScience Features Resist, Accept, Direct (RAD) Framework

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BioScience Features Resist, Accept, Direct (RAD) Framework

In the latest BioScience issue, Alaska Wildlife Alliance’s Resist, Accept, Direct (RAD) framework is discussed in several articles and the featured editorial.

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Petition to Protect Lower Cook Inlet Wildlife

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Petition to Protect Lower Cook Inlet Wildlife

Sign the petition to protect Lower Cook Inlet!

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A larger context to local-scale climate adaptation actions

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A larger context to local-scale climate adaptation actions

This presentation shows how the Resist-Accept-Direct decision framework can be used to provide context for local scale projects, such as using beaver dam analogs to help restore drying peatlands, as well as provide collateral benefits like better salmon habitat.

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Action Alert! Proposed Designations of Critical Habitat for Ringed and Bearded Seals in Alaska

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Action Alert! Proposed Designations of Critical Habitat for Ringed and Bearded Seals in Alaska

Learn how you can help protect critical habitat for ringed and bearded seals in Alaska!

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Climate Change adaptation - Resist? Accept? Direct?

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Climate Change adaptation - Resist? Accept? Direct?

AWA’s Vice President, Dr. John Morton, co-authored a recently published report on climate adaptation strategies we hope to employ in Alaska. Learn more about this Resist-Accept-Direct framework.

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Comment to support critical habitat designations for ringed and bearded seals

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Comment to support critical habitat designations for ringed and bearded seals

NOAA Fisheries is proposing to designate critical habitat in U.S. waters off the coast of Alaska for Arctic ringed seals and the Beringia distinct population of bearded seals. Both species are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Indigenous, allied groups go to court to stop issuance of Arctic Refuge leases

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Indigenous, allied groups go to court to stop issuance of Arctic Refuge leases

The motion filed on Dec. 15 requests a preliminary injunction that stops the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from issuing any leases sold during the January lease sale of the coastal plain, and from authorizing any seismic exploration activities.

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Effects of a Warming Climate on Caribou, Moose and Sitka Black-tailed Deer on the Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound

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Effects of a Warming Climate on Caribou, Moose and Sitka Black-tailed Deer on the Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound

Climate envelope models suggest in the near term caribou will likely decrease due to afforestation of alpine tundra; moose will likely increase due to continued colonization of Prince William Sound, afforestation of the Kenai Lowlands and alpine tundra, and increasing fires on the western peninsula; and Sitka deer will likely increase due to colonization of the eastern peninsula.

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Our joint response to recently announced Arctic oil and gas lease sales

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Our joint response to recently announced Arctic oil and gas lease sales

Read our joint letter to Secretary Bernhardt

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VIDEO: Wildlife Wednesday- Hormones and Whales. What tiny molecules can tell us about giants of the sea

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VIDEO: Wildlife Wednesday- Hormones and Whales. What tiny molecules can tell us about giants of the sea

Learn how hormones, tiny molecules produced by the body, are the secret to understanding how whales are coping with a changing environment.

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Exotic Species as Evolutionary Potential (whether you like it or not) in a Rapidly Warming World

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Exotic Species as Evolutionary Potential (whether you like it or not) in a Rapidly Warming World

Current ecological realities demand a rethinking of what is “native” and the ultimate goal of invasive species management in Alaska. Look through AWA’s Board Vice President’s presentation on invasive species in Alaska.

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The Ecological Effects of a Rapidly Warming Climate Case Study: Kenai Wilderness

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The Ecological Effects of a Rapidly Warming Climate Case Study: Kenai Wilderness

How do we interpret what Wilderness is (or should be) in a world in which the climate itself is driven by carbon and methane emissions by humans? See this presentation by AWA Vice President, Dr. John Morton.

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Advocacy in Action: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lawsuit filed!

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Advocacy in Action: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lawsuit filed!

We joined together in a coalition of 12 other organizations to take the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to court for their illegal plan to open the entirety of the Coastal Plains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to foreign oil companies.