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Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling » EcoWatch

Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling » EcoWatch.

Threats to walruses in the Arctic are in the spotlight again, as six environmental and conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) challenging a rule that would allow oil companies to begin drilling in key walrus feeding areas in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea by next year. Shell has already announced its intention to do so.

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Approximately 35,000 walruses gather on the northwest coast of Alaska, near Point Lay, on Sept. 27. Photo credit: Corey Accardo / NOAA

Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Alaska Wilderness LeagueCenter for Biological DiversityGreenpeace, Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands, Sierra Cluband Natural Resources Defense Council. According to the plaintiffs, oil operations could force walruses out of their feeding areas, trigger stampedes, harm them with loud seismic blasts and put them at risk from the impacts of catastrophic oil spills which would be difficult to clean up in Arctic conditions.

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