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WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 20, 2010) – Defenders of Wildlife announced today that, with the implementation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and states of new federal legislation providing federal funds for state programs to compensate ranchers for livestock taken by wolves, Defenders’ highly successful livestock compensation program is no longer needed and will end in most states on Sept. 10. Defenders is providing support to states as they start their own compensation programs, and will be focusing on collaborative efforts to help ranchers coexist with wolves.
A federal judge today ruled in favor of designating critical habitat areas for the wintering piping plover in North Carolina in compliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, intervened in the case on behalf of the Interior Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
MISSOULA, MT (August 5, 2010)—A U.S. District court today overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision to remove gray wolves in the Northern Rockies from the endangered species list. The court sided with Defenders of Wildlife and other conservation organizations that sued to restore federal protections.
Seeking to uphold the federal protections necessary for the recovery of the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale, a coalition of conservation groups today moved to intervene in the case filed by the State of Alaska against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
A NOAA report released today claims much of the oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well has evaporated, been burned, skimmed, or recovered, or has degraded or dispersed.
The threatened California sea otter population has declined for a second consecutive year, according to an annual survey released today by U.S. Geological Survey. The sea otter population 3-year-average fell to 2,711 animals, a loss of 3.6 percent since last year.
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 of Mexico.
WASHINGTON, DC (July 28, 2010) -- A coalition of conservation organizations working on the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation (PARC) Project announced today that it has discovered three potential new species of frogs.
Defenders of Wildlife mourns the loss of climate scientist, Dr. Stephen Schneider
San Benito County Planning Commission held a public hearing yesterday on the future of the Panoche Valley Solar Farm, which drew heavy criticism from conservation organizations due to impacts the proposed project would have on endangered kit foxes, blunt-nosed leopard lizards and other imperiled wildlife. Defenders of Wildlife urged solar-energy developer Solargen to move its project to 30,000 degraded acres in the nearby Westlands Water District located in the Central Valley.