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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
Congress Pushes Plans to Remove Federal Protections for Wyoming and Great Lakes Wolves
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: February 12, 2015 Contact: Melanie Gade, mgade@defenders.org; (202) 772-0288 Congress Pushes Plans to Remove Federal Protections for Wyoming and Great Lakes
Confirmed: Gray Wolf Shot and Killed in Utah was Grand Canyon visitor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2015 Contact: Courtney Sexton, 202.772.0253, csexton@defenders.org Confirmed: Gray Wolf Shot and Killed in Utah was Grand Canyon visitor Fish and
Obama Administration Proposes Increased Funding for Conservation, Climate Change Resilience and Clean Energy Programs in 2016 Budget
Washington (February 2, 2015) –– The Obama administration has released its 2016 budget proposal, which calls for an increase of $74 billion over destructive sequester
Feds Place Hurdles Too High For “Dinosaur Fish” Recovery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2015 Contact: Melanie Gade: mgade@defenders.org (202) 772-0288 Angela Guyadeen: Aguyadeen@NRDC.org (312) 651-7936 Feds Place Hurdles Too High For “Dinosaur Fish”
Win for Wildlife: Senate Rejects Amendment Undermining the Endangered Species Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2015 Contact: Courtney Sexton, 202.772.0253, csexton@defenders.org Win for Wildlife: Senate Rejects Amendment Undermining the Endangered Species Act Votes “nay” on
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