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

Bush Administration's Delay Is Placing Hundreds of Species At Risk of Extinction
Contact: Center for Biological Diversity

These are difficult times for all of us who care deeply about the natural world and our place in it. One of the ways I find the strength to do this work is because of the WildEarth Guardians community.
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Pennzoil, seeking protection for the wildlife and recreation values of the Valle Vidal, donated the area to the US Forest Service in 1982. Now, the Forest Service wants to reopen this sensitive area to drilling.
Contact: National Forest Protection Alliance

WildEarth Guardians has encouraged FWS to adopt a cautious approach on this reintroduction so that it does not come at the expense of the wild falcon population which exists in southern New Mexico.
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Environmentalists and endangered-species advocates cried foul while livestock- and oil-industry advocates cheered as the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday fundamentally changing the 30-year-old Endangered Species Act
Contact: Staci Matlock The New Mexican

John Horning, Executive Director of WildEarth Guardians Welcomes Bruce Babbitt to Santa Fe for a conversation about his new book, Cities in the Wilderness
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will reconsider its drilling plan adjacent to Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Roswell in light of the recent listing of four unique springsnails and a freshwater shrimp under the Endangered Species Act.
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Congress is now considering a bill that would destroy the Endangered Species Act. The power of this law to provide more public oversight on ill-considered water projects, oil and gas drilling, grazing, logging, has generated many opponents.
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Two former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees claimed on Monday (9/19/05) that the agency willfully violated the Endangered Species Act by letting the Rio Grande run dry at inappropriate times
Contact: Tim Korte Associated Press

FWS directors in the Southwest Region used fear of retribution to intimidate biologists and appease politically powerful water interests
Contact: WildEarth Guardians