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AWA on The Wolf Connection Podcast!

AWA on The Wolf Connection Podcast!

Listen to AWA’s Executive Director discuss Denali wolves and our efforts to protect them.

Action Alert! Comment to support a new National Park Service Rule that protects bears, wolves and people

Action Alert! Comment to support a new National Park Service Rule that protects bears, wolves and people

Submit your comment by March 10th to protect wildlife and people in Alaska’s National Preserves!

VIDEO: Wildlife of Bristol Bay

VIDEO: Wildlife of Bristol Bay

Join us in celebration of Bristol Bay's wildlife! You’ll hear from three speakers to learn about wildlife in Bristol Bay and how you can help protect them.

Climate Change adaptation - Resist? Accept? Direct?

Climate Change adaptation - Resist? Accept? Direct?

AWA’s Vice President, Dr. John Morton, co-authored a recently published report on climate adaptation strategies we hope to employ in Alaska. Learn more about this Resist-Accept-Direct framework.

September 2020 Newsletter

September 2020 Newsletter

Stay informed! We just sent our newsletter with the latest on AWA's actions to protect wildlife. Learn how to become a citizen scientist to protect endangered beluga whales, join our petition to close the lynx trapping season in Chugach State Park, support our efforts to save the last Alexander Archipelago wolves on Prince of Wales Island, and more. Sign up for e-newsletters at the bottom of this page to be the first to know!

Advocacy in Action: Preventing sport hunting in Alaska's National Preserves

Advocacy in Action: Preventing sport hunting in Alaska's National Preserves

Now that NPS has reversed their stance against predator control, it will be legal to shoot brown bears over piles of doughnuts and grease; to shine artificial lights into dens to kill hibernating black bears and their cubs; to shoot wolves and coyotes, and their pups, during the denning season when their pelts are in generally poor condition; and taking swimming caribou using motorboats. Our lawsuit aims to stop that.

AWA Member in Action: "New Trump wildlife rule will hurt Alaska tourism"

AWA Member in Action: "New Trump wildlife rule will hurt Alaska tourism"

“There is nothing courageous or sporting about these methods, nothing even closely resembling fair chase. These methods are not the Alaska way. And we’ve said as much: A 2018 opinion poll showed that an overwhelming majority of Alaskans support existing wildlife protection and public safety policies on Alaska refuges and preserves.”

BREAKING: Hunting regulations rolled back across Alaska's National parklands and refuges

BREAKING: Hunting regulations rolled back across Alaska's National parklands and refuges

DOI just announced that it is legal to kill bears and cubs while they hibernate, caribou while they’re swimming, wolves and coyotes while they’re denning, and bait bears over grease-soaked donuts in Alaska’s national parks, preserves, and refuges.