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

Press Releases
Jan 4, 2021
Gray wolves lose federal Endangered Species Act protections

WildEarth Guardians mourns loss of protections for all gray wolves across the lower 48 and vows legal action

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Dec 23, 2020
Suit strives to restore broad protections to nation’s waterways

Trump administration rollback gutted basic federal protections for 90 percent of the rivers, creeks, marshes, arroyos, ciénegas, and streams in the Rio Grande basin

Rivers
Dec 23, 2020
Feds agree to protect Nassau grouper habitat

Florida, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands Nearshore Waters Need Safeguards

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Dec 17, 2020
Guardians lauds Biden’s historic pick of Haaland for Interior Secretary

First Native Cabinet Secretary will make climate and environmental justice a centerpiece of Interior Department

Climate + Energy, Public Lands, Rivers, Wildlife
#PressStatement
Dec 15, 2020
WildEarth Guardians joins 500 groups to call on President-elect Biden to order fossil fuel leasing ban

Proposed executive order could be implemented immediately by new Secretary of the Interior

Climate + Energy, Public Lands
#JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround
Dec 15, 2020
Trump administration finalizes new rule weakening the Endangered Species Act

Latest 11th hour rollback paves the way for extractive industries to destroy habitat of imperiled species during a biodiversity crisis

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Dec 14, 2020
Coalition lawsuit: Science says wolverines need protection

Lawsuit aims to ensure U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provides wolverines the protective Endangered Species Act status they desperately need

Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Dec 11, 2020
Federal judge rejects sale of public lands for fracking in Utah

Decision comes as President-elect Biden has promised to ban oil and gas leasing on public lands

Climate + Energy
#KeepItInTheGround
Dec 10, 2020
Eleventh-hour Trump actions prolong “scorched earth” policy threatening western public lands

Clearcutting of native forests and sagebrush shrublands fast-tracked by eliminating public input and review

Public Lands
#PressStatement, #ProtectNEPA, #Rewilding, #SafeguardTheSagebrushSea, #WildlandsForWildlife
Dec 8, 2020
Stealth effort to significantly expand ATV use on Colville National Forest challenged

Forest provides habitat for grizzly bear, Canada lynx, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, bull trout, western yellow-bellied cuckoo, and dozens of other species

Public Lands
#Rewilding