Please can you help the Tongass National Forest, America's largest national forest?  It's in Alaska. 

I had an email this morning in my inbox from the Sierra Club, an organisation which was founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892. 

The Tongass National Forest has been under a Roadless Rule protection in South East Alaska. The Trump Administration is going to remove that protection and allow clear cutting and road construction to go ahead.  This could happen within the next couple of weeks if we don't put a stop to it. 

The Sierra Club, which has protected 250 million acres, say that Senator Lisa Murkowski and her Big Timber-backed allies endorsed the deal – and it will cause untold environmental destruction.

Ways to get involved:

Donate

The Sierra Club is mobilising opposition to the agreement, pushing for people to be heard, and hauling the Trump administration back into court.  They need donations to do this. The Sierra Club is ramping up legal and legislative teams and organising allies elsewhere, where similar deals will imperil forests and wildlife.

If you can donate, please do – and help the Sierra Club protect the last wild places from being criss-crossed by roads and clear cut.

Sign this Petition

The Alaska WIlderness League has a petition (which I think is for the US only because I couldn't sign it) asking the US Forest Service to continue its roadless protection of the area.  Sign the petition with the Alaska Wilderness League here.  You can also donate to help the League in its work. 

It’s time to give nature and the natural world a break and for us all to stop destroying it and I'm talking world wide here, not just in one country.  

Find out more about the damage the Trump Administration is ready to inflict on Alaska and how you can get involved at the Alaska Wilderness League's website here.

Yesterday, I had an email from Darren Grover, Head of Living Ecosystems at WWF Australia.

WWF have had a big win for the fight for koalas in Queensland, and now they are fighting for koalas in New South Wales.  And they need all our help.

Tree clearing and climate change are leaving koalas with nowhere to go.

Their trees are being cut down.  The koalas are risking their lives as they hunt for food and shelter.  One in four koalas have already been lost and if nothing changes, they could be locally extinct as soon as 2050.  There’s been a massive spike in the destruction of koala habitat, with 14 hectares of koala forest being destroyed every day.  It all adds up.

So WWF Australia are asking people to sign their petition. 

It tells the NSW Government to stop excessive tree-clearing, and to encourage tree planting across the state to combat drought-stricken areas and give the next generation of koalas somewhere to live.  

It’s an important time to join together and protect Australia’s land and unique wildlife who live there.

Please support this petition and stand up for NSW Koalas and Australian wildlife

Sign the petition here

It seems the All England Lawn Tennis Club aren't doing their bit to stop the use of throwaway plastic bottles.

Top tennis players are calling on them to do the right thing and ban these wretched bottles from the tournament.

So we need to put a bit of public pressure on the club to nudge them in the right direction and do the right thing.

They’ve made a start – they’re ditching plastic straws. 

But now it seems they need some encouragement to move away from the plastic, single use bottle.

So 38 Degrees  have a petition to encourage Wimbledon to get active and do the deed.

They’ve been successful with their petitions before, when lots of people persuaded PG Tips to switch to plastic-free tea bags.

Come on, Wimbledon – do your bit to go plastic free!

You can encourage them to do just that and Sign the Ditch Plastic Bottles at Wimbledon petition here

Go to 38Degrees.com to see other campaigns you can support