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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.

Our Program

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

  1. Plan an interconnected continental network of large, protected areas and corridors to serve as "climate adaptation refuges" to ensure optimal survival of species and habitats at risk due to climate change.

  2. Help establish five to seven major ecosystem resiliency reserves.

  3. Limit or eliminate non-climate stresses including habitat fragmentation, over-harvesting, invasive species, and disruptive human activities like oil drilling, logging and pollution.

  4. Where necessary, help species adapt by reintroducing native species, assisting in migration, controlling pests or disease outbreaks, or other tactics.

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.

News

6.24.09
On June 15, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Western Governors' Association (WGA), the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Department of the Interior was signed to promote the organizat...
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6.24.09
This past Monday, the Supreme Court upheld a permit that would allow a gold mine to dump its waste directly into a freshwater lake, killing all its fish and aquatic life. The court ruled 6-3 and reve...
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6.24.09
Last Tuesday, the Obama administration released its first ever climate science report, the most important and comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change in the U.S. since the first Nat...
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