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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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service quietly rescinded its Refuge System Strategic Growth Policy in December, bypassing the legally required public comment period for such a change, despite having issued the policy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.
Press Releases
Zinke Proposes to Monumentally Sell Out American Public, Wildlife and Wild Lands
WASHINGTON – Major news outlets last night publicized a memorandum by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke that recommends downsizing some national monuments and marine
Washington Post: Trump Administration Secretly Pushing Illegal Oil Exploration in the Arctic Refuge
WASHINGTON – The Washington Post reported today that the Trump administration is secretly taking the first steps towards opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to
Mexican Gray Wolf Lethally Removed from the Wild
SANTA FE (Sept. 15, 2017) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced today that for the first time in over a decade, a
Conservation Groups Challenge Border Wall Construction in San Diego, Imperial Valley
Media contacts: Catalina Tresky, Defenders of Wildlife, ctresky@defenders.org, (202) 772-0253 Courtney Bourgoin, Sierra Club, courtney.bourgoin@sierraclub.org, (202) 495-3022 Animal Legal Defense Fund, media@aldf.org WASHINGTON (Sept. 14
SHARE Act Anything but Generous Towards Wildlife
Today the House Natural Resources Committee voted to advance H.R. 3668, the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act, to the House floor. The bill
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