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 Since 2001, NRDC has harnessed the power of the Internet to save threatened wildlands and wildlife across the Americas. With the click of a mouse, hundreds of thousands of our online activists -- known as BioGems Defenders -- bring overwhelming pressure to bear on governments and companies bent on industrializing the world's last wild places. Recently, BioGems Defenders played a key role in keeping Big Oil out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Utah's spectacular Redrock Wilderness. This year, online activists can help protect 13 BioGems and many species of wildlife under threat -- including polar bears and wolves -- using a new and improved BioGems website.
Launched in February, the redesigned website features a variety of multimedia presentations, blog posts and other online tools to make sure that activists are informed and ready to take action at critical moments in a campaign. To date, BioGems Defenders have sent more than 11 million messages in defense of wildlife and wildlands and have helped score impressive victories for the environment. A new interactive time line allows visitors to explore dozens of BioGems victories, from saving the world's last unspoiled gray whale nursery in Mexico to winning federal protections for polar bears. "These BioGems are some of the last wild and unspoiled places left in the Western Hemisphere," says Robert Kennedy, Jr., senior attorney at NRDC. "More than ever, we need to be constantly vigilant in order to fend off profit-driven schemes that would industrialize them."
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The BioGems website makes it easy to help save wilderness.
“More than ever, we need to be constantly vigilant in order to fend off profit-driven schemes that would industrialize these last wild places.”
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