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Defenders says reforms to offshore drilling industry are a step in the right direction
WASHINGTON, DC (September 29, 2010) – Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester introduced a bill yesterday that would bypass the Endangered Species Act and remove recently restored federal protections for wolves in the states of Idaho and Montana.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its final “Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change” that identifies ways to help wildlife adapt to the impacts of global warming.
National Wildlife Refuge Week has been celebrated during the second week of October since 1996, but this is the first time Congress has officially recognized the occasion. Refuge Week offers events around the country including festivals, guided tours and other educational opportunities.
BOISE, ID (Sept. 15, 2010) -- Defenders of Wildlife is teaming up with Lionsgate to promote Alpha and Omega, a film about two wolves that are relocated from Jasper Park in Canada to the Sawtooth Wilderness of central Idaho. The movie follows Kate and Humphrey as they make their way back home, crossing paths with grizzly bears, caribou herds and a golfing goose.
Washington, DC (September 1, 2010) – No good deed goes unpunished, and today Defenders of Wildlife is being criticized for ending its program compensating for livestock lost to wolves, following enactment of federal legislation providing $140,000 to Idaho to establish a state-run compensation program.
On August 30, a coalition of conservation groups called on the U.S. Interior Board of Land Appeals to safeguard clean air, protect the climate, and open the door for clean energy by halting the sale and mining of more than 350 million tons of coal in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.
With the breeding season still underway, 2010 is already a record-breaking year for rare sea turtles and waterbirds that nest on beaches at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, according to preliminary numbers from the National Park Service.
The Obama administration’s “America’s Great Outdoors” initiative comes to Orlando on August 26 in an effort to develop a conservation agenda for the 21st century. Conservation and recreation leaders across Florida are calling on the administration to prioritize land and river protection and restoration, and to launch a National Blueways Initiative.
When the U.S. Department of the Interior comes to Orlando this Thursday as part of the “America’s Great Outdoors” tour, environmental groups will present a request that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service significantly expand the boundaries of the 26,000 acre Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. Expansion of the refuge will expedite the protection and recovery of the endangered Florida panther and the many imperiled species which share its Southwest Florida habitat.