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May 22, 2024
Wildlife groups initiate legal action: Feds too slow to protect Sonoran desert tortoise

Species threatened by climate change, livestock grazing, drought, invasive species, development

Arizona, Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
May 22, 2024
Wildlife activists urge continued grizzly bear protections

100,000 petition signatures delivered to Sec. Haaland as grizzly bear images light up Interior Building

Idaho, Montana, Public Lands, Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement
May 16, 2024
Biden administration to end coal leasing in Powder River Basin

Victory — BLM decision will keep nearly 6 billion tons of highly polluting coal in the ground

Climate + Energy, Legal Victory, Wyoming
#ClimateJustice, #ForceForNature, #KeepItInTheGround, #NoNewLeases
May 14, 2024
Conservation groups sue Fish and Wildlife Service over improper grazing management at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Agency repeatedly rubber-stamped livestock grazing despite acknowledging its harms

Montana, Public Lands
#ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #Rewilding, #WildlandsForWildlife
May 10, 2024
Federal agencies release draft supplemental environmental impact statement on a highway right-of-way through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area

Public engagement vital as 45-day comment period begins 

Public Lands, Utah
#PressStatement
May 7, 2024
WildEarth Guardians announces Chris Smith as Wildlife Program Director

"I’m eager to weave a strong ethic of coexistence into the ongoing story of the American West," said Smith

Wildlife
#EndTheWarOnWildlife, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement
May 7, 2024
Nez Perce-Clearwater Revised Forest Plan fails wildlife, climate, and the public

Conservationists demand changes during three-day objection meeting

Public Lands, Wildlife
#ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #Rewilding
May 6, 2024
Conservation groups intervene against Signal Peak’s lawsuit seeking to rush review of nation’s largest underground coal mine

"Signal Peak doesn't want us to have a moment of climate sanity," said Kelly Fuller, Climate and Energy Program Director of WildEarth Guardians.

Climate + Energy
#ClimateJustice, #JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement
Apr 30, 2024
Greens applaud translocation of Mexican gray wolves to southeastern Arizona

Restoring these wolves to the wild is definitely worth celebrating

Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #ForceForNature, #PressStatement
Apr 25, 2024
Conservation Groups Defend Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument, Antiquities Act 

Motion to intervene filed in support of President Biden’s monument designation near Grand Canyon 

Public Lands
#ForceForNature, #PressStatement, #ProtectWhatYouLove