WildEarth Guardians

A Force for Nature

Select Page

Current work in wildlife, rivers, public lands, and climate

Press Releases
Oct 1, 2024
Third legal intervention filed to defend federal public lands conservation rule from lawsuits

The groups filed to intervene in cases in North Dakota, Alaska, and today in Utah.

Public Lands, Utah
#ForceForNature, #PressStatement
Sep 26, 2024
Panel presents ‘benefits of beavers’ to Water and Natural Resources Committee

Highlights include wildfire resistance, water security, and watershed restoration

New Mexico, Wildlife
#EndTheWarOnWildlife, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement
Sep 20, 2024
1 million comments support old growth protections on national forests

The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging.

Public Lands
#Climate Forests, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement
Sep 19, 2024
Legal intervention launched to defend federal public lands conservation rule from ND, MT, ID lawsuit

Community, Tribal, and environmental groups filed a motion today to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule.

Idaho, Montana, Public Lands, Where We Work, Wildlife
#PressStatement, #WildlandsForWildlife
Sep 16, 2024
Millions of Dollars to Benefit Sage Grouse, Other Wildlife Delivered by Caldwell Canyon Mine Agreement

“This agreement can be a first step in a much-needed larger effort to reconnect wildlife and their habitat in the region," said Chris Krupp, a public lands attorney with WildEarth Guardians.

Idaho, Legal Victory, Public Lands
#ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #SafeguardTheSagebrushSea
Sep 10, 2024
Idaho, Montana & National Groups Put Feds on Notice on Bitterroot Road Building 

Advocates will go to court to protect critical connective ecosystem for grizzly bears 

Idaho, Montana, Public Lands, Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement
Sep 9, 2024
Copper Creek Wolf family captured; one wolf dead, survivors taken into captivity

Young wolf family was implicated in livestock losses as coexistence measures were late and incomplete

Colorado, Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement
Aug 28, 2024
Federal Court Rules BLM Violated Federal Law by Ignoring Water Quality Impacts of Proposed Mine in Florida Mountains

Southwestern New Mexico and the Florida Mountains represent one of the last big, wild places in the U.S.

Legal Victory, New Mexico, Public Lands, Where We Work
#GreaterGila, #PressStatement
Aug 14, 2024
Lawsuit Launched to Protect World’s Smallest Rabbit in Eight Western States

Protecting pygmy rabbits is vital for preserving the West’s shrinking sagebrush ecosystems

California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wildlife, Wyoming
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Aug 6, 2024
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes endangered and threatened status for eastern and western regal fritillary butterflies

Long-awaited protections for grassland butterflies announced today

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement