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Colorado Releases Wolverine Reintroduction Plan, Defenders Stands Ready to Support
Colorado Parks and Wildlife today released a landmark plan to reintroduce wolverines to the state’s high country regions, some of the best remaining habitat in
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Court Urged to Uphold Ship Strike Protections for North Atlantic Right Whales
Conservation groups today filed a friend of the court brief expressing support for a federal vessel speed limit rule to protect critically endangered North Atlantic
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Fish and Wildlife Service Misguided in Rescinding Vital Strategic Growth Policy for the National Wildlife Refuge System
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service quietly rescinded its Refuge System Strategic Growth Policy in December, bypassing the legally required public comment period for such a change, despite having issued the policy with an accompanying public comment period in 2014.
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Sen. Udall, Heinrich Introduce Bills to Protect our Borderlands from Wall Construction
Two bills were introduced yesterday in the Senate to prevent wall construction in sensitive borderland areas.
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Organizations push back on illegal rulemaking on public information
Today, more than one hundred organizations, led by the Southern Environmental Law Center, submitted comments opposing the Department of the Interior’s proposed revisions to its regulations implementing the Freedom of Information Act.
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ADVISORY: Rally against the Trump Administration’s Border Policies
President Trump’s call for construction of new walls along the U.S.-Mexico border threatens the rich biological diversity of our southern border.
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Defenders of Wildlife Announces Nicole Whittington-Evans as Alaska Program Director
Nicole Whittington-Evans joined Defenders of Wildlife as the Alaska program director. Most recently, she was the Alaska director for The Wilderness Society for over eight years, boasting over twenty years of wildlife conservation experience.
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Defenders of Wildlife Reacts to Trump's Planned Border Visit
"The wall is a terrible idea that tears at the fabric of our American values and endangers our natural heritage, and the victims of the President’s obsession will be all around him at the border.”
jcovey@defenders.org
