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Our joint response to recently announced Arctic oil and gas lease sales
VICTORY! Court upholds prohibition of brown bear baiting in the Kenai Refuge
“We believe that the Fish and Wildlife Service is obligated to protect Kenai brown bears on the refuge and this opinion recognizes the agency’s authority to do just that,” said Nicole Schmitt, executive director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance. “At a time when so many of Alaska’s wildlife protections are being rolled back, this ruling comes as a sigh of relief for all those who enjoy the Refuge and its wildlife.”
FACTSHEET: What are the proposed regulations for Kenai National Wildlife Refuge?
PRESS RELEASE: Our lawsuit to suspend the wolf hunting and trapping season on Prince of Wales Island
VIDEO: Training on how to use your voice for wildlife
Lower Cook Inlet lease sale: Our concerns for endangered beluga whales
The Cook Inlet beluga whale is a revered whale population that resides off the coast of Alaska’s largest city and along Alaska’s popular Kenai Peninsula. Its population has plummeted in recent decades from nearly 1,300 individuals in 1979 to only 279 in 2018, and despite its status as an endangered species, the population shows no signs of recovery and continues to decline at a rate of 2.3% per year.
FACTSHEET: What are the proposed regulations for Kenai National Wildlife Refuge?
PRESS RELEASE: Controversial Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Baiting and Trapping Rule gets new hearing, extended public comment
After receiving substantial public opposition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will hold an additional public hearing and public comment period on controversial proposed brown bear baiting and trapping regulations in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The comment period will be reopened from October 9 to November 9 and a virtual public hearing on the proposed rule is scheduled for Monday, October 26 at 4:00 p.m. AKST.
September 2020 Newsletter
Stay informed! We just sent our newsletter with the latest on AWA's actions to protect wildlife. Learn how to become a citizen scientist to protect endangered beluga whales, join our petition to close the lynx trapping season in Chugach State Park, support our efforts to save the last Alexander Archipelago wolves on Prince of Wales Island, and more. Sign up for e-newsletters at the bottom of this page to be the first to know!
Our petition to halt trapping of Alexander Archipelago Wolves
PRESS RELEASE: Petition to close upcoming lynx trapping season in Chugach State Park
Advocacy in Action: Preventing sport hunting in Alaska's National Preserves
Now that NPS has reversed their stance against predator control, it will be legal to shoot brown bears over piles of doughnuts and grease; to shine artificial lights into dens to kill hibernating black bears and their cubs; to shoot wolves and coyotes, and their pups, during the denning season when their pelts are in generally poor condition; and taking swimming caribou using motorboats. Our lawsuit aims to stop that.
Advocacy in Action: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lawsuit filed!
Advocacy in Action: Ambler Road lawsuit filed!
The Ambler Road would cut through federal public lands in the Gates of the Arctic National Preserve for the sole purpose of giving private mining companies access to undisturbed regions for hard rock mining. In permitting the Ambler Road, these agencies violated the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act and other federal laws and regulations by making final decisions based on a deeply flawed and inadequate environmental review.
