Oppose Incidental Take of Polar Bears and Pacific Walruses

The groups on this fight

4 groups work Alaska

By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Alaska Wilderness League

  Works Alaska: built around defending the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas drilling.

• Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges

  Works Alaska: lead plaintiff in the November 2025 federal suit challenging the land exchange signed to put a road through the Izembek Wilderness.

• Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

  Works Alaska: southeast Alaska’s homegrown defender of the Tongass since 1970.

• The Wilderness Society

  Works Alaska: has litigated the 211-mile Ambler industrial road since the original 2020 approvals.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Fish and Wildlife Service considers authorizing incidental take of polar bears and Pacific walruses in the Beaufort Sea and North Slope for oil and gas operations. The Alaska Oil and Gas Association request would provide legal cover for industry activities that harass or harm marine mammals.

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, received a request under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 from the Alaska Oil and Gas Association to issue regulations facilitating the authorization of incidental, unintentional take of small numbers of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) during year-round oil and gas industry activities in the Beaufort Sea (Alaska and the Outer Continental Shelf) and adjacent northern coast of Alaska. Take may result from oil and gas exploration, development, production, and transportation activities occurring for a period of 5 years. O…

Federal Register 2026-04558 ↗

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