Tar Sands Oil Expansion Threatens North America’s Premier Bird Nesting Grounds

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is asking for your help to stop the destruction of a region of wetlands that millions of birds rely upon (click on map above for more information on this important biome).

All four major flyways in North America — the aerial migration routes traveled by billions of birds each year — converge in one spot in Canada’s boreal forest, the Peace-Athabasca Delta in northeastern Alberta.  More than 1 million birds, including tundra swans, snow geese and countless ducks, stop to rest and gather strength in these undisturbed wetlands each autumn.  For many waterfowl, this area is their only nesting ground.

The U.S. State Department is on the brink of approving a new trans-boundary pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, leading to additional mining and drilling for tar sands oil in the boreal forest. NRDC and our BioGems Defenders are fighting to stop the expansion of tar sands oil extraction and to protect bird habitat in the boreal forest¹.

We are calling on the State Department to say “NO” to new tar sands pipelines in the United States and encouraging a switch to cleaner forms of energy production that would reduce global warming and protect North America’s last great forests.

Click here to go straight to a pre-composed, editable email to Secretary Clinton, asking her to just say “NO” to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

Reference  ¹ Natural Resources Defense Council, Peace-Athabasca Delta

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• Toxic Tar Sands: Profiles From The Front Lines
• Keystone Pipeline
• Environmentalists Step-up Campaign Against Keystone XL Pipeline
• Stop The Pipe