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President Trump Rescinds Long Standing Executive Orders Designed to Conserve Wildlife and Federal Lands from Unmanaged Motorized Recreation
President Trump last Friday issued an Executive Order rescinding EOs 11644 and 11989 which guide the management of ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles, jet skis and other off-road motorized vehicles on federal lands. President Trump also ordered federal agencies to rescind or revise regulations that implement the prior EOs.
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House Interior Bill Attacks Crucial Protections for Imperiled Wildlife and Public Lands
Defenders of Wildlife today slammed the House Appropriations Committee’s proposed Interior and Environment spending bill for Fiscal Year 2027, which includes numerous damaging policy riders intended to weaken the Endangered Species Act and undermine protections for individual species.
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Defenders Backs Colorado, Calls on Federal Government to Push Onward with Gray Wolf Reintroduction
Defenders of Wildlife sent a comment letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today in response to a public request for information, urging continued
Press Releases
Defenders’ Official Position on the Authorization for Removal of Profanity Peak Pack
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 25, 2016 Media contact: Catalina Tresky: ctresky@defenders.org or (202) 772-0253 Defenders’ Official Position on the Authorization for Removal of Profanity Peak
Defenders of Wildlife Welcomes Recovery Plan for Ocelot; Concerns Regarding Habitat Threats Remain
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 15, 2016 Media Contacts: Rebecca Bullis, Defenders of Wildlife: rbullis@defenders.org or (202) 772-0295 TUCSON, Ariz. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife and Natural Resources Defense Council Support Biologists’ Recommendations to Remove Intake Dam on the Yellowstone River to Save Pallid Sturgeon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 12, 2016 Media Contacts: Catalina Tresky, Defenders of Wildlife: ctresky@defenders.org or (202) 772-0253 Margie Kelly, Natural Resources Defense Council: mkelly@nrdc.org or
Draft Federal Gunnison Sage-Grouse Plan Raises Concern for Species’ Recovery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2016 Media Contact: Catalina Tresky, ctresky@defenders.org or (202) 772-0253 Draft Federal Gunnison Sage-Grouse Plan Raises Concern for Species’ Recovery WASHINGTON
Environmental Groups Ask California Officials to Save Endangered Fish in San Francisco Bay Estuary from Extinction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2016 Media Contacts: Catalina Tresky, Defenders of Wildlife, 202-772-0253 or ctresky@defenders.org Kimiko Martinez, Natural Resources Defense Council, 310-434-2344 or kmartinez@nrdc.org
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