Resilient Habitats

If we want the world's wildlife and native plants to survive in a changing climate, we must help them adapt by protecting critical habitat and creating corridors that will allow for migration as climate changes and temperatures rise.

Take Action! Urge your Senators to cosponsor the Natural Resources Climate Adaptation Act and ask the Obama administration to take the necessary steps to protect our wildlife and wild places from climate change.

Our Program

The Sierra Club is working to achieve five primary outcomes in this initiative:

Create model climate refuges in 10 targeted ecosystems by the year 2020.
Every federal land, water, and wildlife management agency will be required to work together to build resilient habitats on all federal public lands.
Increase resilience of wildlife habitat in every state by 2020.
Work with landowners to protect 20 million acres of private lands and waters by 2020. These will provide resilient habitat for perpetuity.
Enhance the capacity of our forests, wetlands and soils to store carbon and help fight global warming.

If we act now, we can still give our grandchildren a world where polar bears, giant sequoias, wild salmon, sea turtles, rainforests and emperor penguins survive. More about our program

News

3.11.10

Sage Grouse Listed as "Candidate" Endangered Species

Late last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally announced its decision regarding the potential listing of the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. The finding was "warranted but p...

Protect the Tongass!

Local Forest Service officials in Alaska are moving forward with plans to log old-growth trees in the Tongass. Not only would these plans cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars for associated new roads but they would also target inventoried roadless areas and threaten an irreplaceable natural legacy.

Help us permanently protect the Tongass from Big Timber and other special interests. Sign our petition!