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WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the Trump administration today over the ...

Contact: Kelley Dennings, kdennings@biologicaldiversity.org, (919) 355-8102. Rapid Population Growth in West, South Comes at High Cost to Wildlife. Census ...

SANTA TERESA, N.M.— Drone footage of new border wall in New Mexico shows that the Trump administration's border militarization is already damaging ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today, shows an increase of 144 percent from last year's count and is ...

SAN DIEGO— More than 1,000 free Endangered Species Condoms will be given away by the Center for Biological Diversity on Friday, Feb. 8 as part of the San ...

SAN DIEGO— A state court judge today upheld protection for gray wolves under the California Endangered Species Act. The ruling rejected a challenge from ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Authors of a major new scientific review of the catastrophic decline of insects say a “serious reduction in pesticide usage” is key to ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Forty thousand free Endangered Species Condoms will be given away in the 10 “best cities to get married in” by the Center for Biological ...

WASHINGTON— Congress today prepared to accede to President Trump's demands for border wall funding, releasing details of a budget plan that will give him ...

AUSTIN, Texas— A federal judge in Austin yesterday ruled that the golden-cheeked warbler should remain protected under the Endangered Species Act. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Four conservation and public health groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today for approving a permit for a new ...

NEW YORK— One thousand free Endangered Species Condoms will be given away by the Center for Biological Diversity in Times Square on Thursday, Feb.

WASHINGTON— Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) has introduced legislation to permanently ban oil and gas leasing in Nevada's Ruby Mountains.

CAMARILLO, Calif.— Californians will mark the 50th anniversary of the massive Santa Barbara oil spill by protesting outside the federal office working to ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho— The U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Forest *Service* have announced plans to build a road in Idaho's Selkirk Mountains that ...

SAN FRANCISCO— A federal court has rejected the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's bid to delay a lawsuit alleging it's not doing enough to prevent ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— Conservationists today sued the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to challenge its “Safe Harbor Agreement” that would allow a ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon today filed a notice of intent to sue and compel the U.S. Fish and *Service* to expand ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho— Conservation groups issued a formal notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* for failing to finalize endangered ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— University of North Carolina officials on Wednesday will try to explain to Chapel Hill town councilors why the college is indefinitely ...

January 25, 2019 - LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a new motion on Thursday to dismiss Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's lawsuit, which ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo.— Conservationists sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services program today over its outdated wildlife-killing plan for ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— President Trump is the winner of the Center for Biological Diversity's 2018 Rubber Dodo award. The statue is awarded each year to the person ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont.— A federal court ruling today further delayed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline by reaffirming that TransCanada cannot conduct any ...

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.— A coalition of voting-rights and environmental organizations are launching a redistricting teach-in tour in eastern North Carolina this ...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) submitted a January 7th document to the National Marine Fisheries *Service* and United States Fish and Wildlife ...

ST. JAMES PARISH, La.— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Trump administration for refusing to release public records related to an enormous ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups filed a notice today of their intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect severely imperiled lesser prairie ...

LOS ANGELES — The Center for Biological Diversity and California Native Plant Society today demanded that the L.A. County Board of Supervisors reconsider ...

LOS ANGELES— In response to legal action by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* has finalized a recovery plan for the ...

RALEIGH, N.C.— The Energy Justice NC Coalition will roll out a multipronged campaign with a press conference Wednesday, Feb. 13. The groups will call for ...

DENVER, Colo.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch today filed a notice of intent to sue JBS USA and the Swift Beef Company for ...

Before you wrap up that date with your special someone, there's something else conservationists hope you wrap up as well … for the love of wildlife. They say ...

LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a new motion today to dismiss Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's lawsuit, which aims to have all federal ...

VENTURA, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted comments today supporting Ventura County's draft wildlife connectivity ordinance, which the ...

Protests come at a steep price. According to a new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute, the Keep It In the Ground movement, ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.— Four environmental and public health groups took legal action today to uphold the state of Washington's prohibition on spraying the ...

WASHINGTON— Legislation introduced Thursday by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) would eliminate the Environmental Protection ...

WASHINGTON— The return of supersonic airplanes would result in 96 million metric tons of carbon pollution per year, according to a new study released today ...

NAPA, Calif.— Conservation-minded community members and groups will urge strong steps to protect Napa Valley's watershed and wildlife at a Tuesday study ...

Construction on a six-mile stretch of a steel and concrete wall along the Texas-Mexico border is expected to begin at the end of this month. But conservationists ...

ST. JAMES, La.— The state of Louisiana again affirmed that profits for out-of-state petrochemical companies come before the health of its most vulnerable ...

U.S. Border security may prompt the reopening of a road bisecting important grizzly bear habitat north of Priest Lake.

BOZEMAN, Mont.— Conservation groups today called on the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee's Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee to update a ...

A state court judge today upheld protection for gray wolves under the California Endangered Species Act. The ruling rejected a challenge from the Pacific Legal ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Three conservation and public health groups filed a Freedom of Information Act request today with the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Wildlife advocates have begun legal proceedings against U.S. officials for allegedly failing to protect a ground-dwelling bird species that's seen its habitat shrink ...

A recent study analyzed recovery trends for endangered marine species protected under the US Endangered Species Act.

DALLAS — The National Butterfly Center has filed for a restraining order to keep federal agents and contractors — who plan to build a border wall through the ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter to Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and the House Natural Resources Committee Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to respond to a legal petition to protect giraffes ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the National Marine Fisheries *Service* and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today to prohibit ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration's Department of the Interior has taken down environmental review websites for many of its key agencies, a step that ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In a Trump administration memorandum leaked to the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* is directing its staff to ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal notice of intent to sue acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for failing to make ...

WASHINGTON— The eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander, is among 10 species threatened by the Trump administration and its plans to ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect nine imperiled species ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.— Two conservation groups filed an emergency lawsuit today seeking a temporary restraining order to stop Washington wildlife officials from ...

President Trump is expected to declare a national emergency in order to build a southern border wall. As the national debate over a wall rages on, the.

WASHINGTON— Conservation and animal protection groups sued the Trump administration today for illegally establishing the “International Wildlife ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for waiving 28 conservation laws to speed construction of the border wall along the ...

HONOLULU— The Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups have teamed up with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to ...

WASHINGTON— In a massive attack on imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration announced a series of rollbacks today to the regulations implementing key ...

WASHINGTON— More than 200 conservation and animal-welfare organizations today urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in a letter to withdraw three ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— More than 10,000 free Endangered Species Condoms will be given away next week by the Center for Biological Diversity for Earth Overshoot ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity today urged the Environmental Protection Agency to deny Bayer CropScience's request to allow the ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Wishtoyo Foundation today reached a settlement with the Trump ...

Tejon Ranch is California wild, a place where mountain lions prey on unsuspecting fawns and storm-twisted trees cling to remote ridges, where California ...

RALEIGH, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a lawsuit to force the Trump administration to release emails related to the development of a new ...

ARCATA, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for Humboldt martens as “threatened” in response to a ...

WASHINGTON— President Trump nominated Andrew Wheeler today to be the permanent administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The former ...

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas— The Trump administration today announced that it will waive 28 laws to speed construction of gates and other border-wall ...

SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect the West Coast ocean habitat of the last remaining ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups will present arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Trump ...

LAS VEGAS— A Nevada state court judge today granted the Center for Biological Diversity's motion to challenge a lawsuit filed by rancher Cliven Bundy, who ...

WASHINGTON— A Trump administration proposal today to radically slash Clean Water Act protections would free industry to dump toxic waste into streams ...

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WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today to expose a secretive program that denies Endangered Species Act ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— A new state analysis has documented super-toxic rat poisons in more than 85 percent of tested mountain lions, bobcats and protected ...

WASHINGTON— Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives today announced a series of bills aimed at profoundly gutting the Endangered Species Act, ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity is giving away 6,000 free Endangered Species Condoms this Halloween to highlight the scary costs of ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration has nominated a former Monsanto employee to run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service*. Aurelia Skipwith has been at ...

LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a legal motion in Nevada state court to dismiss Cliven Bundy's latest lawsuit to seize more than 58 ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Center for Biological Diversity Executive Director Kierán Suckling released the following statement in response to a New York Times report, ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for refusing to release public ...

LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity today tripled the reward to $15,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the May 2018 ...

WASHINGTON— The House of Representatives rammed through legislation today that would allow hunting or eviction of native tule elk from large portions of ...

KATOWICE, Poland— New analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity, Farm Forward and Brighter Green today finds that the meat-heavy menu at the ...

TUCSON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect critical habitat for the northern Mexican garter snake and ...

NEW ORLEANS— From economists and scientists to religious leaders and business owners, dozens of groups this week submitted “friend of the court” briefs ...

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas— The Trump administration announced today that it will waive dozens of environmental laws to speed border-wall construction ...

This week on Helping Hand we're learning about a crisis in our Asia Pacific neighborhood revolving around the Pacific Walrus. HPR All Things Considered.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today for failing to release public ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries *Service* gave Endangered Species Act protection today to the chambered nautilus, which is threatened with ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will forgo a ban in favor of minor new restrictions on the pesticide dicamba, ...

WASHINGTON— Thirty-eight environmental, public-health and community groups today called on the Senate to reject a bill provision that would lift the ban on ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* for violating the Endangered Species Act by never providing a ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Humane Society of the United States today petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* to maintain ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— In response to a petition and litigation from conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today finalized protection for the trispot ...