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Spring 2008 Newsletter
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Birding Hotlines around
ALASKA
907.338.BIRD (Anchorage)
907.235.7337 (Homer)
907.224.2325 (Seward)
907.451.9213 (Fairbanks)
907.262.2300 (Central Kenai Peninsula)

Cook Inlet Beluga Population Flat Lines

© Kathy Frost

On September 25, the National Marine Fisheries Service released its 2008 Cook Inlet Beluga Whale survey, finding that the Cook Inlet beluga population has failed to grow and hovers at the dangerously low number of ~375 animals. Audubon Alaska, marine mammal experts, and other conservation groups have renewed their calls to the Bush Administration to immediately list the Cook Inlet beluga whale as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act.

READ the press release.
LISTEN to an interview with Audubon’s John Schoen.
DONATE NOW to help Audubon continue its critical conservation work.

Help Protect Izembek National Wildlife Refuge


	© Chris Dau, USFWS

The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important habitats for migratory birds in the entire Pacific Flyway. But this globally significant wetland is under threat from a new bill (S. 1680/ H.R. 2801), which would remove Wilderness protection for an unnecessary and expensive road through the heart of the Refuge.

READ MORE about Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
TAKE ACTION. Write to your members of Congress to urge their opposition to this bill.
DONATE NOW to help Audubon Alaska defend our National Wildlife Refuges.

Audubon Alaska Has Moved

8/19/08
Please note our new address:

441 West Fifth Avenue, Suite 300
Anchorage, AK 99501

Please note that our phone (907-276-7034), fax (907-276-5069), and web address will remain the same.

Victory for Teshekpuk Lake—For Now


	© Gerrit Vyn, The Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

On July 16, 2008 the Secretary of Interior announced the Bureau of Land Management’s Record of Decision for the Northeast Area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The decision includes a ten-year deferral of oil and gas leasing north and east of Teshekpuk Lake. This decision lifts the immediate threat of leasing, but it does not afford permanent protection for this critical wetlands area.

READ MORE about Teshekpuk Lake.
SEE PICTURES of Teshekpuk Lake on the Field and Stream website.
DONATE NOW to help protect Teshekpuk Lake and wildlands across Alaska.

NEW: IBAs of Alaska Map

Is it any surprise that Alaska has more globally significant bird habitats than any other state in the union? Over the last seven years, Audubon has combed Alaska to find Important Bird Areas (IBAs) across the state.

To showcase these habitats, we are offering beautiful, poster-sized maps for your wall or classroom. The map is more than a geography lesson or promotional swag; it features full-color, original artwork by David Allen Sibley.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF of Alaska’s IBA map (384 KB, PDF file).
EMAIL US to request a copy.
READ MORE about Alaska’s IBA program.
DONATE NOW to support Audubon’s conservation work in Alaska.

Chukchi in Peril

© Marc Webber, USFWS

The Chukchi is one of the most productive ocean ecosystems in the world; it is habitat for Pacific walrus, millions of seabirds and waterfowl, four species of ice seals, several species of endangered whales, and half of America’s polar bears. This past February, the US Department of the Interior held the first of several planned oil and gas lease sales on nearly 30 million acres of the Chukchi Sea—an area the size of Pennsylvania.

READ MORE about the Chukchi Sea and what Audubon is doing.
TAKE ACTION by contacting your Senators and Representative.
DONATE NOW to Audubon Alaska and help us defend the Chukchi.

Tongass Forest: Last Chance for Temperate Rainforest


	© John Schoen

The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is our nation’s largest national forest. Nearly 17 million acres in size, it encompasses the largest intact temperate rainforest on earth, and it is home to abundant fish and wildlife, including Marbled Murrelets, brown bears, and all five species of Pacific salmon. But conservation of the Tongass is at a critical juncture. This is our last chance to protect temperate rainforest at an ecosystem scale.

READ MORE about the Tongass National Forest.
VIEW A SLIDESHOW of Tongass photographs.
CHECK OUT National Geographic’s recent article on the Tongass.
READ OUR CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT for the Tongass.

Audubon Alaska
441 West Fifth Avenue, Suite 300
Anchorage, AK 99501
phone: 907.276.7034 | fax: 907.276.5069
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