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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:
- 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.
- Help establish five to seven major ecosystem resiliency reserves.
- Limit or eliminate non-climate stresses including habitat fragmentation, over-harvesting, invasive species, and disruptive human activities like oil drilling, logging and pollution.
- 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
When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived on the banks of the Snake River in 1805, the Columbia-Snake River Basin in America's Pacific Northwest boasted the greatest salmon stocks on Earth - up to 30 million salmon returned home each year.
Today, however, populations linger near just one percent of that historic number. Wild salmon and steelhead — a valuable economic resource for the Northwest and a treasure to the nation — are in danger of extinction.
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