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Washington, DC

Colorado Releases Wolverine Reintroduction Plan, Defenders Stands Ready to Support

Colorado Parks and Wildlife today released a landmark plan to reintroduce wolverines to the state’s high country regions, some of the best remaining habitat in
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right whale
Orlando, Fla.

Court Urged to Uphold Ship Strike Protections for North Atlantic Right Whales

Conservation groups today filed a friend of the court brief expressing support for a federal vessel speed limit rule to protect critically endangered North Atlantic
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Ocelot
WASHINGTON, D.C.

Fish and Wildlife Service Misguided in Rescinding Vital Strategic Growth Policy for the National Wildlife Refuge System

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service quietly rescinded its Refuge System Strategic Growth Policy in December, bypassing the legally required public comment period for such a change, despite having issued the policy with an accompanying public comment period in 2014.

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As CA sea otter population declines, conservation fund falters

Defenders of Wildlife calls on late tax-filers to save the Sea Otter Fund, research Summary: According to the USGS’s spring survey of California sea otters

The House of Representatives passes the CLEAR Act, taking a landmark step toward fixing our broken offshore drilling system

Summary: The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass H.R. 3534, the CLEAR Act, in response to the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf

PARC Project finds three potential new frog species

Many more species could be lost to deadly fungus unless quick action is taken Summary: Three new frog species found by researchers in Panama Rescue

Defenders of Wildlife mourns the loss of climate scientist, Dr. Stephen Schneider

Statement on the passing of Dr. Stephen Schneider Summary: The following is a statement by Jamie Rappaport Clark, executive vice president for Defenders of Wildlife

Panoche Valley Solar Farm threatens California's heartland

Defenders of Wildlife says the project is a good idea but sited in the wrong place HOLLISTER, Cailf. (07/22/2010) - Some of central California’s most
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