Stand Up for Whales, Seals & Polar Bears: Protect the MMPA

Right now, one of America’s most important wildlife laws is under attack — and animals from our deepest oceans to the rapidly warming Arctic are in danger.

For more than 50 years, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) has saved countless whales, dolphins, sea otters, seals, manatees — and polar bears — from exploitation, industrial harm, habitat loss, and extinction. It’s the reason many once-declining species have recovered. It’s the reason no protected marine mammal species has vanished from U.S. waters since the law passed.

But extremists in Congress are trying to gut the MMPA, rewriting its core purpose and weakening the protections that Arctic wildlife desperately needs.

Their proposals would slash science-based safeguards, make it easier for industries to harm marine mammals, and reduce the law’s mandate from restoring healthy, thriving populations to the bare minimum of “continued survival.” That’s unacceptable — especially as climate change pushes some species to the brink.

Polar bears are already fighting for their lives. Rapid sea ice loss is destroying their hunting grounds, shrinking their access to seals, and pushing mothers and cubs into dangerous, starvation-level conditions. They need stronger protections — not weaker ones.

We cannot allow Congress to dismantle the very law designed to save them.

Add your name if you agree Congress must:

1:  Keep the MMPA’s requirement to restore healthy populations — not settle for survival at the edge of extinction.

2: Maintain and strengthen protections from oil and gas drilling, industrial noise, vessel traffic, pollution, and climate-driven habitat loss — including the sea-ice decline threatening polar bears.

3:  Fully fund NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service so they can enforce the law.

Whales, dolphins, seals, and polar bears cannot speak for themselves — but we can.

Please sign now to demand Congress save the Marine Mammal Protection Act and protect the ocean and Arctic animals who need it most.