Defenders of WildlifeOpinion

Senate Permitting Deal Threatens Bedrock Endangered Species Protections

Defenders of Wildlife today strongly condemned Endangered Species Act provisions reportedly included in a Senate permitting ...
Defenders of WildlifeOpinion

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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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 ...
Defenders of Wildlife

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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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 ...
Defenders of Wildlife

Opinion: We Can Build More Without Sacrificing America's Natural Heritage

This op-ed in The Hill, written by Defenders of Wildlife President and CEO Andrew Bowman, argues against using the Endangered Species Act as a bargaining chip in permitting reform, contending that ...
Defenders of Wildlife

Is Any Place Off Limits to Development? Protecting Wildlife’s Last Untouched Space.

What does it mean to “protect” our public lands and water? Is any place off limits to development? As the Trump administration expands oil and gas development at dizzying rates across the country, ...
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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 ...
Defenders of Wildlife

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 — ...
Defenders of Wildlife

CCI FY2021 Accomplishments Infographic

Each year, CCI carries out an end-of-year evaluation of our past year’s work and builds on that to develop the coming (fiscal) year work plan. One product of this year’s evaluation was an infographic ...
Defenders of Wildlife

Options for prioritizing sites for biodiversity conservation with implications for '30 by 30'

International and national initiatives aim to conserve at least 30% of lands and waters by 2030. To safeguard biodiversity, conservation actions must be distributed in places that represent ecosystem ...