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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 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.
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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