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 ...
The Sagebrush Sea is the seemingly endless sagebrush grasslands that cover the yawning basins and the broad plateaus of the Intermountain West. While often portrayed as a barren and dusty desert, ...
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 ...
Keats joined Defenders in 2025 as a Senior Policy and Planning Specialist focused on National Forests and Grasslands. She works to protect wildlife, habitats, and biodiversity through policy, land use ...
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 is calling on BLM to withdrawal an unprecedented proposal to open Ouray National Wildlife Refuge in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Defenders of Wildlife today strongly condemned Endangered Species Act provisions reportedly included in a Senate permitting ...
The Senate today blocked an attempt to pass S. 5438, introduced by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK). The bill would have ratified ...
Governor Gavin Newsom today signed into law Senate Bill 1135, establishing the California Wildlife Coexistence Program within ...