TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity has won the 2024 Charity Navigator Community Choice Award in a nationwide competition decided by a popular vote. The award recognizes a nonprofit organization’s commitment to transparency, accountability and the highest standards of excellence.

“This award shows that people deeply value the Center’s mission to save life on Earth and preserve a livable world for future generations,” said Kierán Suckling, the Center’s executive director. “We couldn’t do this work without our supporters, volunteers and staff, who’re dedicated to protecting the wild places that plants and animals need to survive. We’re grateful for this award and we’ll keep doing everything we can to safeguard the climate and the magnificent biodiversity of our beautiful planet.”

The award comes after important victories for the wild. This year the Center has:

• Help win Endangered Species Act protections for Atlantic humpback dolphins.
• Halted a plan to fast-track permitting for dangerously polluting oil and gas drilling projects in the largest oil-producing county in California.
• Won a court ruling that halted dangerous spraying of the toxic weed-killing pesticide dicamba across millions of acres.
• Secured 1.1 million acres of critical habitat for endangered Florida bonneted bats and 1.2 million acres of critical habitat for threatened Humboldt martens in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.
• Helped secure Endangered Species Act protection for dunes sagebrush lizards of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas.
• Finalized protections for seven Texas species of freshwater mussels.
• Won protection for Suwanee alligator snapping turtles in Florida and Georgia, and Mt. Rainier white-tailed ptarmigans.
• Helped stop a destructive logging project in Utah’s Ashley National Forest.
• Protected polar bears in Alaska from harassment by the oil and gas industry.
• Protected Canada lynx in Minnesota from being trapped in neck snares.

Winners of the Charity Navigator Community Choice Awards are determined by the total number of votes received by supporters within each size-based category. The Center was the winner in the large-sized category. All of the nominees and the four winners across categories have earned Charity Navigator’s four-star rating in assessments on Leadership and Adaptability, Accountability and Finance, Culture and Community, and Impact and Results.

About Charity Navigator

Founded in 2002, Charity Navigator is a 501(c)(3) organization that guides intelligent giving with the nation’s largest, most comprehensive charity evaluation tool. The organization helps donors easily identify U.S.-registered charities making a difference on the issues they care about most while helping charities better understand their donors, deliver on impact, and increase awareness and funding. Learn more at charitynavigator.org.