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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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service quietly rescinded its Refuge System Strategic Growth Policy in December, bypassing the legally required public comment period for such a change, despite having issued the policy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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Trump Executive Order Prioritizes Profit Over Ocean Protection
President Trump issued an Executive Order on June 19, 2018 overturning the National Ocean Policy established by President Obama in 2010 to safeguard our coasts
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Defenders Condemns Reckless Push for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling
An oil and gas leasing program on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska will jeopardize sensitive species, irreparably damage public
Trump administration announces plan to review regulations for bedrock environmental law
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) submitted an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking announcing the Trump administration’s plans to review the implementing regulations
Final Agreement for Yellowstone Buffalo Means Buffalo Can Go to Tribes
The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes along with their conservation partners remain steadfast that a program agreement to divert Yellowstone buffalo from slaughter and
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Considers Dropping Threatened, Endangered Wolves from Endangered Species Act
According to a report by the Associated Press, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has begun a review of the status of the gray wolf. U.S. FWS is considering dropping threatened and endangered gray wolves across the lower 48 states from the Endangered Species Act.
jcovey@defenders.org
