Polar bear cubs will soon emerge into an industrial nightmare.

We can’t let oil companies transform the Arctic. Join us in fighting back by lending your support today! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [Mother Polar Bear and Cubs © Peter Norvig]( Defender, Deep under the Arctic snow, a new generation of polar bear cubs is growing. When spring arrives, those cubs will join their mothers and take their first steps outside their den. What they find there could be shocking – deafening machinery, airplanes and massive trucks, transforming their home into a contaminated, dangerous oil field. Fossil fuel companies are pillaging the Arctic, and polar bears and other wildlife are paying the price. They need allies on their side: They need you! [Help stop billion-dollar oil companies from turning polar bear habitat into an industrial nightmare. Pitch in today to fight back!]( The last thing we need is more destructive oil and gas construction in the Arctic, but that’s not stopping greedy oil companies from tearing up this landscape and delivering a deadly double punch to polar bears and other animals. Those companies are building their massive oilfields in the heart of polar bear denning habitat, threatening to collapse their dens and crush the bears inside. To make matters worse, this new construction could release hundreds of millions of tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Arctic is already warming up four times faster than the rest of the planet. More climate-changing emissions will be a death sentence for ice-dependent animals like polar bears. [Put polar bears above private oil profits. Lend your support today!]( When polar bear cubs emerge from their dens this spring, they deserve to find a world as wild and promising as the one we inherited. It’s up to us to defend that world for them. Pitch in right now to join us in fighting back against Big Oil’s industrial invasion of the Arctic! [PROTECT POLAR BEARS]( Thank you for doing your part to protect our nation’s precious wildlife. Sincerely, Defenders of Wildlife [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( Defenders of Wildlife 1130 17th Street NW • Washington, DC 20036 defenders.org --------------------------------------------------------------- Photo credit: Mother Polar Bear and Cubs © Peter Norvig This email was sent to {EMAIL} Please do not respond to this email. [Unsubscribe here]( or update your preferences [here!]( [supporter]