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Students, parents and faculty from FernLeaf Community Charter School remove invasive plants and plant new growth along the bank of Cane Creek in Fletcher, N.C.
Fletcher, N.C.

Shade Your Stream Program Plants New Life Along North Carolina Creek

The banks of Cane Creek came alive Friday with hard work — much of it by small, determined hands. Students of the FernLeaf Community School
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Johanna Grasso

Defenders Secures Win for Polar Bears in Alaska's North Slope

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finding that oil and gas activities in Alaska pose
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National Park Service Identifies ‘Preferred Alternative’ to Restore Grizzly Bears to the North Cascades

The Friends of the North Cascades Grizzly Bear coalition celebrates today as federal agencies announced their preference to bring grizzly bears back to the North

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Trump Strikes Disastrous Land Deal for Road through Izembek Refuge

The Department of the Interior signed an agreement to trade away internationally recognized, congressionally designated wilderness wetlands in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to allow construction
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Washington, DC

Lawsuit Filed to Save North Atlantic Right Whales from Death in Fishing Gear

Conservation and animal - protection groups today sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to prevent critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from becoming

Tribes, Conservation Groups Support Investigation of Yellowstone Bison Sabotage

The Fort Peck Tribes and representatives from Defenders of Wildlife, World Wildlife Fund and the National Wildlife Federation welcome Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke’s decision

Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan: A Death Sentence for Southern Resident Orcas

The Trump administration’s recent proposal to expand offshore oil and gas drilling could hasten the extinction of the Pacific Northwest’s last 76 Southern Resident killer

Most Americans Would Oppose Infrastructure Plan That Sacrifices the Environment, Poll Shows

Americans overwhelmingly reject the idea that improving the nation’s infrastructure should come at the expense of protections for air, water, wildlife and natural places, a
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