Alaska's wildlife needs your help right now.

Foreign-owned companies are looking to dig an open pit mine in the middle of wild Alaska more than half the size of Manhattan.

Such large mining operations would forever change Alaska's landscape, rivers, and lakes. It would threaten countless numbers of Alaska's animals, such as the sockeye salmon, who have one of the largest runs in the world in Alaska's waters.

We only have 7 days to save Alaska's rivers and wetlands. For today's Daily Action, ask President Obama to protect Alaska's land from large-scale mining operations before its too late!

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