Defenders and partners at the Prairie Dog Coalition call on Colorado Parks and Wildlife to prohibit recreational shooting of prairie dogs on public lands.

Defenders of Wildlife is proud to announce Stephan Ekernas as its new Vice President of Species Conservation and Coexistence, ...

From the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border passes through regions rich in biological diversity and human communities engaged in conservation. For decades, U.S. and ...

Though the pinyon jay population continues to decline at alarming rates, until now the threats facing it remained largely under-researched. Defenders of Wildlife, along with the U.S. National Forest ...

In a major victory for the communities and wildlife that depend on North Carolina’s Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina ruled that ...

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today that permits to build in wetlands should stay in the hands of federal regulators rather than the state of Florida. The ruling ...

Suit claims Bureau of Land Management walked away from 2015 commitments to sage-grouse to benefit oil and gas industry This incredible and unique bird is losing time and its home. We’re holding the ...

Cuts to climate change adaptation and national wildlife refuge programs. Leaving waterways vulnerable to the interests of corporate polluters. Elimination of critical protections for wolves. These are ...

The National Park Service finalized a regulation that abdicates the agency's responsibility to manage wildlife in Alaska's national preserves, deferring instead to state regulations. Defenders of ...

This letter to the editor, published in The Washington Post and written by Defenders of Wildlife’s Andrew Bowman, pushes back on the paper’s pro-permitting-bill editorial, arguing its Endangered ...

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