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Defenders Slams Lease Sale in Arctic Refuge
The Bureau of Land Management today opened nine bids on five tracts regarding an oil and gas lease sale on the Coastal Plain of the
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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.
Press Releases
Senators Portman’s and Brown’s Resolution Honoring Passenger Pigeon Extinction Anniversary Passes Senate with Unanimous Consent
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melanie Gade; mgade@defenders.org; (202) 772-0288 December 17, 2014 Senators Portman’s and Brown’s Resolution Honoring Passenger Pigeon Extinction Anniversary Passes Senate with
Omnibus Appropriations Rider Brings More Grief for Imperiled Sage-grouse
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2014 Contact: Courtney Sexton; 202.772.0253, csexton@defenders.org Omnibus Appropriations Rider Brings More Grief for Imperiled Sage-grouse WASHINGTON—Today the House and Senate
Red Knot Shorebird Listed as Threatened by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Washington, D.C. (December 9, 2014)–– American Bird Conservancy (ABC), Defenders of Wildlife, and the Natural Resources Defense Council welcomed today’s decision by the U.S. Fish
Conservationists Ask Forest Service to Deny Commercial Predator Killing Contest on Its Land in Idaho
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2014 Contact: Melanie Gade: mgade@defenders.org; (202) 772-0288 Suzanne Stone: sstone@defenders.org; 208-861-4655 Bryan Hurlbutt: bhurlbutt@advocateswest.org; (208) 342-7024 x206 Conservationists Ask Forest
Lawsuit Challenges Denial of Endangered Species Protection to Arizona’s Pygmy Owls
For Immediate Release December 2, 2014 Contacts: Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495 Courtney Sexton, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-0253, csexton@defenders.org Lawsuit Challenges
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