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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
Blaine County Says No More Wolf Killing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: September 16, 2014 Contact: Suzanne Stone: sstone@defenders.org; (208) 861-4655 Melanie Gade: mgade@defenders.org (202) 772-0288 Blaine County Says No More Wolf Killing
Sharks and Mantas Gain Needed Protections Under CITES
New International Trade Regulations In Effect WASHINGTON – Five species of sharks and two manta ray species will officially be listed today, as a result
Litigation Reins In Misguided Army Corps Program to Cut Trees from Levees
For Immediate Release September 11, 2014 Contact: Bob Wright, Friends of the River, (916) 442-3155 x207 Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 499-9185 Kim
Coalition to Sue Fish and Wildlife Service for Failure to Produce Mandatory Recovery Plan for Endangered Mexican Gray Wolf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2014 Contact: Virginia Busch, Endangered Wolf Center; vbusch@endangeredwolfcenter.org Maggie Howell, Wolf Conservation Center; Maggie@nywolf.org, (914) 763-2373 David R. Parsons; ellobodave@comcast.net
Remembering the Wild: America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2014 Contact: Courtney Sexton, csexton@defenders.org, 202-772-0253 Remembering the Wild: America celebrates the 50 th anniversary of the Wilderness Act WASHINGTON
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