Two Hundred Thousand Thank Yous!

YOU DID IT!

Your votes—once a week, every week for 12 weeks—helped us win $200,000 in funding from Members Project from American Express!

Two hundred thousand dollars will help us:

• Support our on-the-ground efforts to ensure that humans and wolves can peacefully co-exist
• Stop harmful drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—the most important onshore denning habitat for America’s polar bears
• Work with Native American tribes and others to expand the range of wild bison
• Protect the beach habitat that sea turtles need to survive
• Fund rewards to capture people who illegally kill rare lynx
• Relocate prairie dogs to protected habitat and restore their important place in prairie ecosystems
• Plan and advocate for panther crossings to reduce the number of cats killed on Florida’s roads

And much more!

You didn’t just vote for us… you VOTED for us! From the first week of voting through to the last, Defenders received more than 80% of the votes in the Environment & Wildlife category. More than 1,500 of you became Members of our community on the Take Part website and about 2,400 of you Liked it on Facebook!

Now THAT’s what we call being a Defender of Wildlife!

On behalf of all the wildlife and wild places we’re fighting so hard to protect—on the ground, in the courts, and in Washington, D.C.—thank you. Two hundred thousand times, THANK YOU!