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California Legislature Sends Landmark Wildlife Coexistence Bill to Governor
The California state legislature today passed with bipartisan support a landmark bill to re-establish the statewide Wildlife Coexistence Program within the Department of Fish and Wildlife, which will better manage and reduce human-wildlife conflict through non-lethal and proactive strategies.
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Defenders Joins Recreation, Conservation Groups to Unite Against Forest Service Travel Rule Rollback
The U.S. Department of Agriculture launched a process to significantly revise its Travel Management Rule, which guides where motorized vehicles are and are not allowed on almost 200 million acres of national forests and grasslands
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BLM Proposal Puts Wildlife and Public Lands at Risk, Sends Taxpayers the Bill
Defenders of Wildlife and coalition partners oppose BLM's proposed Oil & Gas Rule that will harm wildlife, weaken bonding requirements and limit public input.
Press Releases
Latin American and Caribbean Nations Work Together to Promote Sustainable Global Trade of Sharks
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil (December 5, 2013) - More than 70 participants representing 28 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Recife, Brazil, from
Atlantic Tuna Commission Fails Sharks Again
ICCAT leaves high seas mako fishing unregulated, porbeagles unprotected, and finning ban weak Cape Town, South Africa. November 25, 2013. Fishing nations at the annual
Obama administration issues report reiterating support for conservation programs in farm bill
Statement of Defenders of Wildlife President Jamie Rappaport Clark Washington, D.C. (November 22, 2013) —“The Obama Administration is right to support the Conservation Compliance program
Representative John Dingell to receive Honorary Award for his efforts to pass the Endangered Species Act
Award to be presented at Environmental Community 40 th Anniversary of the ESA Celebration Washington, D.C. (November 13, 2013) — Defenders of Wildlife Senior Vice
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to crush six tons of ivory seized over 25 years
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is scheduled to crush six tons of illegally confiscated ivory on November 14, 2013 at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal
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