Your support of NRDC made a world of difference to our environment in 2013
Bison © Art Wolfe; belugas © Suzi Eszterhas/Minden Pictures; musk oxen © Steven J. Kazlowski/lefteyepro.com; Pascua Falls, Patagonia © Bridget Besaw
Here are a few of the environmental victories your Membership support made possible:
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We went to court and made sure that polar bears will keep their protection under the Endangered Species Act.
We came to the legal defense of local citizens in New York, whose voices were squelched after they opposed the spread of fracking in their community.
We devised an innovative approach to cutting global warming pollution that became the model for President Obama’s bold plan to tackle the climate crisis.
We brought world wide pressure on the British mining giant Anglo-American, which announced it was withdrawing from the Pebble Mine project that threatens the Bristol Bay wilderness.
We helped win a land mark agreement that will let Yellowstone’s wild buffalo roam outside the national park, in 75,000 acres of their historic winter range.
We helped save 11 million acres of important wildlife habitat in the Western Arctic Reserve from oil development.
We won a court ruling that the government violated the law when it allowed an oil company to endanger the last 312 beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.
We scored a victory in Chile when the president-elect announced her opposition to a hydroelectric dam project that would destroy two of Patagonia’s wildest rivers.
Thanks for making a world of difference! View an inspiring video of our victories, narrated by Kyra Sedgwick, at www.nrdc.org/victories