The “ESA Amendments Act of 2025” would eviscerate protections for species on the brink of extinction. View our fact sheet to learn more about H.R. 1897, the "ESA Amendments Act of 2025".
As we address the immediate crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impacts on people, families and communities, the nation and our planet are
From our Florida offices in St. Petersburg and Tallahassee, Defenders engages in solution-oriented, science-based advocacy, education, outreach, policy development and litigation to defend Florida panthers
Arizona is exceptionally rich in biodiversity thanks to its unique mix of habitats—ponderosa pine forests and pinyon-juniper woodlands, vital rivers winding through the Sonoran Desert
From Subalpine forests in the north to the Chihuahuan Desert along the southern border, New Mexico is one of the most biologically diverse states in the country. Defenders of Wildlife has long worked to protect the imperiled wildlife that depend on the state’s varied landscapes, including the Upper Rio Grande Basin and the Greater Gila Bioregion, and to broaden support for wildlife conservation.
Like many regions along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico boundary, the borderlands of New Mexico are a conservation hotspot, an area with rich biological diversity and high numbers of threatened and endangered species protected by significant binational investment in conservation.
This analysis reveals that strict national protections for Appendix I-listed species (particularly sawfishes and mobulid rays) are still lacking in many CMS Party Range States.
