Trump Won't Stop Gunning for Yellowstone Grizzlies

The Trump administration now plans to appeal our landmark court victory restoring protection to Yellowstone's grizzlies and halting trophy hunts in Wyoming and Idaho.

It's not surprising. Trump's anti-wildlife appointees stripped Endangered Species Act protection from these bears in 2017, paving the way for hunts of up to 20 bears if they strayed over the national park boundary. The Center for Biological Diversity and allies sued, winning back the bears' protection in September.

We'll resist this latest move too, of course.

"Rather than create a plan to truly recover grizzlies in the West, the Trump administration wants to spend more time and money in court," said the Center's Andrea Santarsiere. "It's ludicrous."

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Agreement Protects Endangered Alabama Fish

The Center and Tennessee Riverkeeper have reached an agreement with Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A. to protect the critically endangered spring pygmy sunfish and minimize impacts from a planned automobile manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Ala.

The agreement will protect at least 1,100 acres of the Beaverdam Spring and Creek Complex where the sunfish lives and provide $6 million to conserve the species and its habitat. The land will be protected in its natural state and restricted to low-impact uses.

This agreement was reached after the Center raised concerns in a notice of intent to sue under the Endangered Species Act.

"With this agreement, the sunfish has more than a fighting chance to make it," said the Center's Elise Bennett.

Read more at AL.com.

Victory: Habitat to Be Protected for Western Cuckoo

Western yellow-billed cuckoos will finally get protection for some of their most important habitat.

After a Center lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to finalize habitat safeguards by August 2020. It's the latest news in our long fight to save these songbirds, which once ranged across the U.S. West but have declined to only about 350 pairs.

We sought the birds' protection back in 1998. They were finally listed as a threatened species in 2014, along with a proposal to protect more than 500,000 acres. But that proposal was never finalized, so we sued.

"This victory will provide an essential safety net for these beautiful birds," said the Center's Brian Segee.

Read more in The Daily Sentinel.

Trump's Oil Cronies Set to Plunder Arctic Refuge

The Trump administration never stops inviting fossil fuel interests to ravage our public lands for profit. Most recently, the feds released a draft study preparing for an oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

This 19.3-million-acre northern wilderness is home to diverse and stunning Arctic wildlife, including polar and grizzly bears, wolves, and the great Porcupine caribou herd.

"Once we industrialize our last great Alaskan wilderness areas, there's no going back," said Kierán Suckling, the Center's executive director. "We have to make a stand against Trump's ignorance and greed. Here's where we protect our environment or accept climate chaos and the extinction crisis."

Read more in The Maritime Executive.

Wild & Weird: Father-and-son Team Monitoring Wildlife

Check out the latest footage from the Center's borderlands critter cams ... which are sometimes checked by a wildlife-loving kindergartner.

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