2020 IN NUMBERS 30+ PARTNERSHIPS 34,000+ PUBLIC COMMENTS In 2020, we partnered with over 30 organizations We mobilized over 34,000 public comments on to provide programs across the state. We are pressing wildlife issues, including regulations building broad coalitions that unite Alaskans to considered by federal agencies, the Alaska Board of speak up for wildlife. Game, state development agencies, and local councils. 2020 Annual Report 2,000 WILDLIFE WEDNESDAY ATTENDEES 3 CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECTS We hosted 19 Wildlife Wednesdays and shared - Co-founded and hosted the Alaska Beluga Monitoring them online. Over 2,000 people learned about Partnership surveys in Kenai and Kasilof to track Alaska's wildlife, from whales to bats, bears to endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales (279 whales left). geese. Thank you to all our volunteer speakers - Continued partnership with the Coastal Observation and small business sponsors! You can view our and Seabird Survey Team to monitor seabird die-offs. Wildlife Wednesday presentations at - Launched "Map the Trap" database to document trap akwildlife.org and on our Facebook page. encounters on Alaska's trails. 4 LAWSUITS 32 WILDLIFE ISSUES We challenged extreme sport hunting practices in We submitted scientific and legal comments on 32 Alaska's National Preserves, underregulated wolf wildlife and habitat issues across Alaska. These trapping on Prince of Wales island, drilling in the comments influence decision makers, raise public Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the awareness, and build an administrative record of development of the Ambler Road. wildlife advocacy for future work. 28 EVENTS 45% MEMBER SUPPORTED We hosted 28 wildlife education and advocacy 45% of our 2020 revenue came from individual events on a variety of wildlife topics. That memberships and donations. We simply could not do means we engaged the public with wildlife- any of this work without support from people like related topics at least twice each month! you. 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PO Box 202022, Anchorage, AK 99520 | 907-917- WILD (9453) | www.akwildlife.org We made progress Kenai National Wildlife Refuge In 2015, the Fish and Wildlife Service passed a rule that prohibited brown bear baiting in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The State of Alaska and Safari Club International sued the agency to try to reverse the rule, so Alaska Wildlife Alliance intervened as an intervenor-defendant in 2016. While the case worked its way through the court system, the Department of Interior changed course under the Trump Administration. To appease the State and trophy hunting interests in the federal cabinet, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a new Kenai Rule in 2020 that would legalize brown bear baiting and liberalize trapping in the refuge. We led a coalition of nine organizations to gather comments in resistance to this new rule. We successfully secured two public comment periods, at which time over 34,000 people commented in overwhelming opposition to the rule. We In 2020 we gave voice to Alaska's wildlife conducted trainings for Alaskans to get involved and coordinated public testimony that resulted in a 10:1 outcry against brown bear baiting in the refuge. Meanwhile, the court ruled that the 2015 rule that prohibited brown bear baiting was, At hearings in fact, legal -- upholding the good rule we fought hard to pass in 2015. We are still waiting to see if our efforts to defeat the 2020 rule were successful.