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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
Reward Offered in Killing of Three California Sea Otters Found at Asilomar Beach, California
$21,000 posted for information about the crime Summary: Three threatened southern sea otters were shot to death and found at Asilomar Beach, in Pacific Grove
Slaughter of Hundreds of Wild Bison Started This Week Just Outside Yellowstone: Over 45,000 Concerned Citizens Urge Governor Bullock to Stop These Senseless Deaths
Slaughter of Hundreds of Wild Bison Started This Week Just Outside Yellowstone: Over 45,000 Concerned Citizens Urge Governor Bullock to Stop These Senseless Deaths FOR
Idaho Intent on Killing Wolves in the Wilderness: New plan aims to reduce population by 60% to please elk hunters
NEWS RELEASE: February 12, 2014 Contact: Tim Preso, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Suzanne Stone, Defenders of Wildlife, (208) 861-4655 George Nickas, Wilderness Watch, (406) 542-2048 Ken
Independent Peer Reviewers Reject Fish and Wildlife Service’s Gray Wolf Delisting Proposal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2014 Contact: Melanie Gade, Defenders of Wildlife, mgade@defenders.org; 202-772-0288 WASHINGTON – Panel members of the independent scientific peer review committee
Governor Otter’s proposed bill to kill wolves moves closer to becoming law in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho – A bill which would establish a wolf control board to spend a proposed $2 million of Idaho taxpayers’ money to kill most
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