The Wilderness Society works with a number of local, regional and national conservation groups to help protect the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, or Western Arctic Reserve.
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska provides critical habitat to numerous Arctic species. We are committed to protecting sensitive areas from drilling.
In Alaska you’ll find some of the largest and most sensitive tracts of wild land left on Earth. Yet these lands may not stay that way if the oil and gas and timber industries have their way.
Top Place: Western Arctic Reserve
Friday, June 1, 2012
The Western Arctic Reserve contains some of the world’s best and most sensitive wildlife and bird habitat.
Despite its remote position on the northern-most edge of the United States, Alaska’s Western Arctic Reserve is a bustling place where busy populations of migrating birds, waterfowl and other wildlife thrive.It is the kingdom of the King Eiders, a dramatically feathered Arctic duck species that flocks in mass to the area’s wetlands every year to breed. Unfortunately, the oil and gas industry has its sights set on this once well-established empire near the Arctic coast.
