The State has been ordered to pay over $500,000 in legal fees following AWA’s win of the 2024 Mulchatna bear control lawsuit.
Alaska Wildlife Alliance and Coalition Partners Warn of Lawsuit Over Arctic Refuge Oil Leasing
A coalition of Indigenous, conservation, and environmental organizations, including AWA, has issued a formal 60-day notice of an intent to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) over the 2025 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
NEW LAWSUIT in Defense of Alaska's Bears
Mulchatna Update: AWA Files Legal Action to Stop the Spring 2025 Cull
Justice for Mulchatna Bears!
AWA and Conservation Groups File to Intervene to Defend Pebble Mine Restrictions
Victory in Our Lawsuit to Protect Beaufort Sea Polar Bears!
Our 2023 Annual Report!
Today, wildlife take the stand
Our lawsuit against Mulchatna Bear Control
Our efforts to reduce harm on already threatened Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears
AWA on the Alaska Law Review 'Alaska and the Environment' Panel
In the News: Wolves in Southeast Alaska Face Pressures From All Sides
“Wolves are a charismatic top predator that have become a symbol of wildness for the conservation movement. Aldo Leopold famously wrote about the conflict between humans and wolves in his 1948 essay, ‘Thinking Like a Mountain,’ where he reflected upon shooting a wolf. Many historians credit this essay as a milestone in the modern-day environmental movement. To this day, wolves elicit an emotional response from so many of us. Love them or hate them, wolves attract a disproportionate amount of attention.”
VICTORY! Court upholds prohibition of brown bear baiting in the Kenai Refuge
Alaska Wildlife Alliance and our coalition partners celebrated a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision today that upheld a 2016 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service rule that enshrines the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s long-standing prohibition on brown bear baiting, along with its decades-long approach of managing the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area for wildlife viewing and education.
