Drilled to Death? Stop HARMFUL drilling in key Polar bear habitat! Take Action below,

Save Our Polar Bears    The Obama administration is again considering dangerous drilling off our coasts. We need your help to protect polar bears and other wildlife from dirty drilling. Make your voice hear now. Urge the Obama administration to protect our coasts. The deadline for comments is this Wednesday, so please take action now.  Share on Facebook

Dear Readers of Sammi's Blog,

I’ve been fighting for more than three decades to protect our coastal waters – and the wildlife that depends on them – I’ve never seen anything like the arrogance of Big Oil’s invasion plans for America’s Polar Bear Seas.

Less than one year after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and just weeks after a significant oil spill in the frigid waters off the coast of Norway, Shell and other oil companies are pressuring the Obama administration to open up the fragile and remote waters of the Arctic to harmful new drilling.

Tell the Obama administration that enough is enough: No more drilling in the Polar Bear Seas.

We only have until Wednesday to make our voices heard. Please take action now.

The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas – sometimes called the Polar Bear Seas – are vital to the survival of America’s threatened polar bears, walrus, bowhead whales and so many other Arctic species.

Yet Shell Oil and other companies are charging ahead with plans to industrialize this crucial area. Here are the facts:

• Big Oil can’t clean up a spill in these remote waters. Last year’s BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and recent new spills off the coasts of Norway and in the Gulf of Mexico show how ill-prepared these companies are when disaster strikes.
• Arctic drilling won’t reduce American gas prices. It will take years – even decades – to get oil from the Arctic. Even then, there is no guarantee that oil won’t simply be shipped abroad to meet the rising demand in China, India and other countries.
• Drilling could devastate Arctic wildlife. Thousands of sea otters were killed when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. The BP disaster claimed the lives of hundreds of threatened and endangered sea turtles and other wildlife. Now imagine the damage that could be wrought on polar bears, walrus and other wildlife by a spill in an area that is more than 1,000 miles away from the nearest Coast Guard station.

Stand up to Big Oil. Urge the Obama administration to nix new drilling in the Polar Bear Seas.

But it's not just Arctic wildlife that's in danger. Big Oil is also pushing for drilling off coasts in the Lower 48, imperiling dolphins, sea turtles, sea otters and other unique wildlife with the threat of a toxic oil catastrophe.

We need to send a loud, clear message to the Obama administration about the importance of protecting the Polar Bear Seas. That's why we need at least 50,000 people to take action before Wednesday.

If just two people from Media take action, we'll reach our 50,000 message goal. Will you help?

Stop harmful offshore drilling. Take action now.

Last year, caring people like you helped secure temporary protections for the Polar Bear Seas. Now we need your help again. Please make your voice heard on this important issue.

Sincerely,

Richard Charter Senior Policy Advisor for Marine Programs Defenders of Wildlife

 © Copyright 2011, Defenders of Wildlife

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Imagine a polar bear in Times Square, its heart-wrenching struggle for survival on display for millions to see. It's a powerful image that could help mobilize people to action to save these beloved bears. And you can make it a reality.

Donate today to help run our powerful new video billboard ad near Times Square and put the plight of our polar bears – and what can be done to save them – front-and-center.

To highlight the desperate plight of these mighty Arctic hunters and spur action to save polar bears, Defenders of Wildlife has secured time on the CBS jumbotron near Times Square through Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

In a very public and prominent way, we’re calling on President Obama to secure vital habitat for these beloved bears and raising awareness about one of the most recognizable victims of climate change.

But we can’t make a difference for polar bears without you. We need to raise $65,000 by midnight tomorrow to make this ad a reality and support other polar bear-saving work.

Your tax-deductible donation will help run this powerful ad through Christmas and New Year’s and support essential work to save polar bears and other threatened and endangered animals from extinction in the wild.

This week alone, Defenders of Wildlife has mobilized nearly 45,000 caring people to contact the White House on behalf of our polar bears.

We’re not stopping there. The need for action is urgent. Scientists say that America’s polar bears could disappear from the wild by 2050… unless we act now.

That’s why we’ve joined environmental partners from across the country and around the world to call for new protections for polar bears and the habitat they need to survive. We’ve issued new recommendations that may well be key to saving America’s struggling bears from extinction in the wild.

And we’re gearing up for a tough new fight in the new Congress (which begins in just a few weeks) to prevent harmful drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort Seas – vital habitat for America’s remaining polar bears.

Defenders of Wildlife is doing everything we can to help save these majestic animals. Will you?

Please donate today and help us save America’s polar bears from extinction in the wild.

For the Wild Ones!