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Black-footed Ferret
Washington, D.C.

Congress Urged to Fully Fund U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Restore Workforce

The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and more than 150 conservation groups today urged Congress to significantly increase the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s budget for endangered species conservation from $299 million to $870 million.
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TUSCON, ARIZONA

¡Que vivan los lobos!

Conservationists are celebrating the historic translocation of two families of Mexican gray wolves in Durango, Mexico, almost 50 years after the last wolves were removed
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Beaver in grand teton
Washington, D.C.

Defenders Denounces Administration's Alarming Proposed Budget Cuts to Wildlife Conservation

Defenders of Wildlife today condemned the Trump administration’s reckless FY27 budget proposal that calls on Congress to slash critical funding vital to wildlife conservation.

Press Releases

Good, bad and ugly: Wolf bills move through Oregon legislature

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: February 9, 2016 Contact: Melanie Gade, 202-772-0288 Good, bad and ugly: Wolf bills move through Oregon legislature SALEM, Ore. – Two

Officials persist in killing wolves in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: February 8, 2016 Contacts: Melanie Gade: mgade@defenders.org; 202-772-0288 Suzanne Stone: sstone@defenders.org; 208-861-4655 Officials persist in killing wolves in Idaho’s Clearwater National

Feds’ new rule will destroy needed habitat for imperiled species

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: February 5, 2016 Contact: Melanie Gade, mgade@defenders.org. (202) 772-0288 Feds’ new rule will destroy needed habitat for imperiled species WASHINGTON –

Defenders hails newly proposed national wildlife refuge in the Northeast

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2016 Contact: Catalina Tresky; ctresky@defenders.org , (202) 772-0253 Defenders hails newly proposed national wildlife refuge in the Northeast U.S. Fish

Poison Pill Amendments Added to Senate Sportsmen’s Bill

Amendments impact gray wolves, United States waterways and protection of predators on national wildlife refuges in Alaska FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Haley McKey, 202-772-0247, hmckey@defenders.org
Senior Vice President, External Affairs
lsheehan@defenders.org
(202) 772-3244
Communications Director
mdewane@defenders.org
(202) 772-0217
Communications Specialist
jcovey@defenders.org
Communications Specialist
kirby@defenders.org
(202) 772-3268