About WildEarth Guardians – who we are and what we do
About Us
WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West.
Driven by passion, we’ve tackled some of the West’s most difficult and pressing conservation challenges over the past three decades. We’ve celebrated small victories (banning leghold trapping in the state of Colorado), monumental triumphs (ending logging on more than 21 million acres in the Southwest), and everything in-between.
We’re proof that a group of committed, visionary, idealistic, and passionate caretakers of the wild can take on the most daunting adversaries—and win.
Areas of Work
Our four programs bring people, science, and the law together in defense of the American West.
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Recent Stories
Being a Merlin
WildEarth Guardians’ staff attorney Kate Merlin can definitely relate to the falcon, which uses insight and strategy to hunt larger birds
The Biden administration needs to stop defending illegal fracking in the Greater Chaco region
U.S. Department of the Interior defending drilling permits illicitly approved by Trump administration
WildEarth Guardians’ 2022 Gala will be live streamed
You can be part of the celebration and discussion wherever you are
The Biden administration needs to stop defending illegal fracking in the Greater Chaco region
U.S. Department of the Interior defending drilling permits illicitly approved by Trump administration
WildEarth Guardians Press
Canadian mining company stakes new claims on the edge of America’s first wilderness
Expansion threatens Mexican spotted owl, Gila trout, and multiple critical watersheds
Read more >Alma ‘Rosie’ Sanchez: Restoration plan will help us live alongside wolves again
The past three years of my life have been spent talking to people about wolves returning to Colorado. I heard people’s fears and the potential impact on individuals’ livelihood and way of life. I also heard excitement about the possible benefits of returning a native carnivore and living ancestor to their home.
Read more >Judge to state: After 13 years, no more delays on oil, gas air permit action
A judge in Garfield County has ordered state officials to act “without additional delay” on an air-pollution permit application for a large oil and gas waste management facility north of Parachute after failing after more than 13 years to make a decision required within 18 months.
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