Defenders of Wildlife alongside the Center of Biological Diversity and others today notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

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

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 works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America. Together, we can ensure a future for the ...

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 blog post presents an op-ed published in Common Dreams, written by Defenders of Wildlife’s Erica Pencak, warning that the Trump administration’s reinterpretation of the Endangered Species Act’s ...

In the face of challenging headwinds, Defenders of Wildlife continues to advocate for critical funding and vital programs that save vulnerable ecosystems. And over the past year, our efforts have ...

When decisions impacting wildlife are made, it is necessary to take all the best available science into account. Unfortunately, large-scale decisions are frequently made without these considerations ...

A wetland is an area of land that is either covered or saturated with water for all or part of the year. Depending on how a wetland formed and the types of vegetation it supports, specific wetlands ...

The Earth is facing environmental crisis. A 2019 global assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reported that approximately 1 ...

Biodiversity is deteriorating at a global level as human actions like development, overexploitation, climate change, pollution, and other factors have led to a dramatic increase in the rate of ...