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Senate Permitting Deal Threatens Bedrock Endangered Species Protections

Defenders of Wildlife today strongly condemned Endangered Species Act provisions reportedly included in a Senate permitting ...
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Defenders Expands Legal Challenge to Trump Administration’s Assault on Endangered Species Act

Defenders of Wildlife today filed an amended complaint challenging the Trump administration’s escalating effort to dismantle ...
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A Much-Needed Win for Wildlife: Senate Introduces Bill to Improve Endangered Species Act Implementation

Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Pete Rickets (R-NE) today introduced the Improving Species Recovery Act, an important bipartisan bill that would improve implementation of the Endangered Species Act.
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Enough is Enough: Senate Blocks Yet Another Attempt to Prioritize Drilling in the Arctic

The Senate today blocked an attempt to pass S. 5438, introduced by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK). The bill would have ratified ...
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BLM Prepares Illegal Move to Open Ouray National Wildlife Refuge to Oil & Gas, a Dangerous Precedent for Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is calling on BLM to withdrawal an unprecedented proposal to open Ouray National Wildlife Refuge in ...
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Gov. Newsom Signs Landmark Legislation Creating California Wildlife Coexistence Program

Governor Gavin Newsom today signed into law Senate Bill 1135, establishing the California Wildlife Coexistence Program within ...
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I Used to Plan for the Future of America's Forests. Now I Watch It Being Unraveled.

For years, my job was to think about our national forests on a timescale of decades. Not just the forest in my own backyard — the rugged Salmon-Challis in Idaho — but forests across a dozen western ...
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From Loathed to Loved: Hellbenders Persevere

This blog was written by Defenders of Wildlife Southeast Stanback Fellow Sally Watanabe. The mature forests of the Appalachian Mountains slope into watersheds where North America’s largest amphibian — ...
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Southern Appalachians

The Appalachian mountain range stretches all the way from Southeastern Canada down to Central Alabama. The Southern Appalachians, a unique section of the range comprising Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia ...
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Texas Hill Country

The Texas Hill Country region is located atop the Edwards Plateau in the heart of central Texas. The region contains one of the most rapidly growing urban corridors in the United States, stretching ...
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Defenders Celebrates U.S. Appeals Court Ruling to Protect Imperiled Sea Turtles from Drowning in Fishing Nets

“This decision maintains a vital lifeline for Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, the smallest and most endangered sea turtle species worldwide, for which Louisiana’s waters are key foraging habitat. Tow-time ...
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A Database of Habitat Conservation Plans and Related Documents Developed Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, non-federal parties may be permitted to take, or harm, listed threatened and endangered species provided they develop an appropriate habitat conservation plan ...