From My email
Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,
I am thrilled to report that we just won a major courtroom victory for the Western Arctic Reserve -- an NRDC BioGem and one of America's greatest natural treasures.
A federal judge has blocked the Bush administration from proceeding with oil and gas development in the famed Teshekpuk Lake region and its world-class wildlife nurseries.
The Western Arctic Reserve may be less well-known than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge but its wildlife populations are every bit as unique, spectacular and endangered.
It is home to the 45,000-member Teshekpuk Lake caribou herd. Tens of thousands of migratory birds come here from as far away as Antarctica to nest without disturbance.
Even Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary James Watt -- no friend of the environment -- recognized Teshekpuk's great importance and granted it federal protection in the 1980s.
But the Bush administration was preparing to strip this wildlife treasure of its protections, sell it to the highest bidder, and create a sprawling industrial zone of pipelines, rigs and waste sites.
NRDC and our partner groups went to court to stop this unconscionable giveaway to Big Oil. And now that court has ruled that the Interior Department failed to consider the cumulative environmental impacts of oil and gas drilling on this sensitive ecosystem.
This is huge victory in a multi-year campaign that NRDC has waged both in and out of court.
And you made it possible! I want to thank our army of supporters who championed this cause by sending 150,000 messages of protest to the Interior Department and by donating the financial support that enabled us to prevail.
All that hard work has paid off in a victory for nature that is well worth celebrating.
Thank you so much for your tireless activism on behalf of the Western Arctic Reserve and all our other endangered BioGems.
http://www.savebiogems.org/
Huge victory for Arctic wildlife!
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