Save Wildlands

These last remaining expanses of American wilderness are irreplaceable. And they are under imminent threat.

America's Arctic Northern Alaska, U.S. Big Oil is escalating its campaign to open America's prime Arctic wildlands to massive oil development. Bristol Bay Southwestern Alaska, U.S. A new gold rush jeopardizes world-class salmon runs and the bears, whales and other wildlife that depend on them.

The Obama administration has taken a promising step but now must reverse an illegal exemption to the roadless rule.

Tar sands mining upstream from this critical nesting site could jeopardize millions of birds.

A proposal to create a U.N. World Heritage site could save the wild heart of Canada’s boreal forest.

The Obama administration must halt the industrialization of Rocky Mountain wildlands.

Utah’s redrock country is still threatened by oil and gas drilling.

The largest and wildest remaining forest in the eastern United States is threatened by logging and development.

Coal mining and paper industry operations threaten to destroy native forests in the southeastern United States.

The rich waters surrounding Mexico’s Baja Peninsula draw abundant wildlife -- as well as industrialization and mega-tourism schemes.

Though Costa Rica is a global environmental leader, new pressures threaten its rich biodiversity.

Despite recent progress, illegal logging still threatens rich habitat and native cultures in the western Amazon.

A massive hydro-electric scheme threatens rugged, unspoiled Patagonia.