Amplify: Biden Administration Protects Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Alaskan Wilderness
The Biden Administration has taken recent actions to protect Alaska’s wildlife as well as Alaska Native communities who rely on the land, water, and wildlife to sustain their existence.
Highlights:
The Biden Interior Department denied a permit for a 211-mile industrial road that would have crossed over 11 rivers and countless streams to reach a copper deposit that the state of Alaska intended to mine.
The road would have significantly disrupted Alaskan wildlife and salmon spawning grounds and jeopardized the hunting and fishing practices of over 30 Native communities.
In addition, the Administration announced its intention to ban oil and gas drilling in 13-million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a 23-million-acre swath of wilderness in Northern Alaska bordered by the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
The areas protected by this ban are home to grizzly and polar bears, caribou and thousands of migratory birds.
In addition to the above protections, the Biden Administration has recently raised the royalty rates for drilling and mining on public lands (the first such increase since 1920).
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