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Mexican gray wolves gained ground in 2011 - The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves surviving in the southwestern United States increased in 2011 to 58 wolves and six breeding pairs, up from 50 wolves and two breeding pairs the year before, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.
House Republican leaders try again to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling for Big Oil - • Republican leaders of the House Natural Resources Committee today did the bidding of Big Oil once again and voted to open up the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the protected eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Bristol Bay to oil drilling all under the pretext of funding this year’s transportation bill.
National Solar Energy Plan Moves Closer to Final Stages - On the heels of President Obama’s State of the Union remarks to expand clean energy development, the Interior Department is moving to finalize the nation’s first solar energy program for public lands with the closing of the public comment period today. Over the past 90 days, the Bureau of Land Management has been seeking input on the Supplemental Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SPEIS) for solar development on public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
Obama administration proposes new forest-planning rule - The Obama administration today proposed a new forest-planning rule that will guide the management of 155 nationals forests and grasslands across the United States.
National Park Service finally issues rules for responsible beach driving in Cape Hatteras - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced new rules to manage off-road vehicle traffic on beaches so nesting and baby sea turtles and birds as well as pedestrians are protected in Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Obama administration right to reject Keystone Pipeline permit - WASHINGTON (January 18, 2012) – The following is a statement from Jamie Rappaport Clark, president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife:
New wildlife refuge established in Florida - Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar today announced the creation of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area in an effort to preserve the community’s ranching heritage and conserve the headwaters and fish and wildlife of the Everglades
Defenders of Wildlife mourns tragic loss of friend and colleague David Gaillard - BOZEMAN, Mont. (Jan. 3, 2012) -- Defenders of Wildlife mourns the passing of David Gaillard. Dave was buried in an avalanche Saturday afternoon while cross-country skiing near Pilot Peak in the Shoshone National Forest south of Cooke City, Montana.
California Dreaming: Lone wolf entering California marks historic conservation success - WASHINGTON (Dec. 30, 2011) – A lone dispersing wolf from Oregon, known as OR7, has crossed the border into northern California.
Great Lakes wolves successfully recovered under Endangered Species Act - WASHINGTON (Dec. 21, 2011) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will be removing federal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes, including parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
AZ solar power project shows how to build 'Smart from the Start' - Defenders of Wildlife praised the first large-scale solar power plant approved to be built on public lands in Arizona today, calling the Sonoran Solar Project a shining example of how collaboration among the solar industry, conservation groups, agencies and the local community leads to “Smart from the Start” renewable energy development.
Obama administration rubber stamps Shell%26#8217;s drilling plans for the Arctic%26#8217;s Chukchi Sea - In the latest in a series of reckless decisions about America’s Arctic Ocean, the Obama administration today gave Royal Dutch Shell the green light to drill in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea beginning next summer - despite the fact that there is no proven way to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic’s extreme conditions and there is significant dearth of scientific information, making it impossible to understand the impacts of Shell’s activities.
New lease sale ignores BP Deepwater Horizon disaster - The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to a lawsuit filed today in D.C. federal court by conservation groups.
Obama administration to broaden sage grouse conservation efforts - The Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service will update their land-use plans, which outline areas open to development and those that should be protected, to include conservation measures for imperiled sage grouse, the Interior Department announced today
Historic decision to return genetically pure bison to tribes paves way for conservation - HELENA, Mont. (Dec. 9, 2011) – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission approved a land-mark plan today to move 68 bison from a quarantine facility near Yellowstone National Park to the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Indian Reservations.

Defenders Wolf Action Alerts:

Tell Governor Palin to End Aerial Hunting of Wolves - Urge Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to end aerial killing of wolves.
Urge Obama to Protect Wolves - Urge President Obama to maintain protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies.
Sign the petition to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves! - Southwest wolves are struggling to survive: the latest population count confirms only 4 breeding pairs, and 52 wolves total, in the wild! Sign the petition to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves
Urge your Congress members to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves! - AZ & NM Residents Only - Southwest wolves are struggling to survive: the latest population count confirms only 4 breeding pairs, and 52 wolves total, in the wild! Urge your members of Congress to support sensible, science-based management of struggling Southwest wolves
Support a National Wolf Recovery Plan - Help ensure a lasting future for wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies and provide a needed boost for wolf recovery and management efforts in the Southwest, Northeast and Pacific Northwest.

Defenders Defenders Action Alerts:

Millions of Birds on the Line - Urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct a full environmental analysis to reduce millions bird deaths from communications structures.
Protect the Polar Bear Seas - Stand up to Big Oil. Urge the Obama administration to nix new drilling in the Polar Bear Seas.
Help Ban These Deadly Poisons! - Urge EPA to ban the use of deadly sodium cyanide and Compound 1080 on our wildlife.
Help Make Louisiana Whooping Cranes a Reality - Urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to return whooping cranes to Louisiana where they belong.
Tell Secretary Vilsack to Stop the Wolf Killing - Urge President Obama's Secretary of the Department of Agriculture to nix the planned wolf slaughter and rein in Wildlife Services.
Save Polar Bears and Other Wildlife from a Deadly Poison - Urge EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to fast-track the ban on the deadly poison endosulfan.
Take Action for Loggerhead Sea Turtles - Send a message to the National Marine Fisheries Service and help ensure that loggerheads get the protection they need under the Endangered Species Act.
Help Wildlife Survive a Changing Climate - Speak out for our wildlife and wild places and ensure they are not forgotten in the struggle against climate change.
Stop the Murkowski Pro-Polluter Ploy! - Urge your senators to oppose Senator Lisa Murkowski's amendment to limit protections for wildlife threatened by climate change
Option A Test For GWO Demonstration - This is a test
Stop Federal Wolf Killing in Idaho - Speak out against Wildlife Services' wolf-killing program in Idaho.
Protect Wolves on National Forests - Tell President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to stop the shoot-on-sight wolf plan for wolves on our National Forests.
Stop the Backroom Attack on Wildlife - Tell your Senators that any comprehensive spending bill for the federal government should ensure vital funding for conservation programs and be free of anti-wildlife provisions.
Help Save Sea Turtles from Drowning - Urge the National Marine Fisheries Service to enforce lifesaving protections for threatened and endangered sea turtles in the Gulf.
Take Action for Wolves, Sea Turtles and Manatees - Speak out for imperiled animals. Write your Representative now and urge him or her to oppose the Interior spending bill.

Defenders Wolves:

Mexican gray wolves gained ground in 2011 - The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves surviving in the southwestern United States increased in 2011 to 58 wolves and six breeding pairs, up from 50 wolves and two breeding pairs the year before, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.
January Wildlife eNews: More Room for Bison; Seeking Safety for Panthers; Saying Goodbye -
California Dreaming: Lone wolf entering California marks historic conservation success - WASHINGTON (Dec. 30, 2011) – A lone dispersing wolf from Oregon, known as OR7, has crossed the border into northern California.
Defenders Board of Game Statewide Comments, January 2012 - Defenders comments for the January, 2012 Board of Game meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.
Great Lakes wolves successfully recovered under Endangered Species Act - WASHINGTON (Dec. 21, 2011) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will be removing federal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes, including parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
Deadline for Wyoming Wolves; Honors for Defenders' Radio Show; Wildlife Adoption Savings - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Washington Wildlife Commission Approves Wolf Recovery Plan - OLYMPIA, Wash. (Dec. 5, 2011) – The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the state’s final wolf recovery plan on Saturday, charting a course toward the long-term sustainability of its growing wolf population.
Wildlife Suffers When Congress Attacks; Big Sharks Win; and More... - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Oregon Passes Landmark Wolf Coexistence Bill - On June 24, 2011 the Oregon Senate unanimously approved a bill that establishes a county-based livestock compensation and wolf coexistence program to reduce conflicts between livestock and wolves.
Defenders Board of Game Arctic Comments, November 2011 - Defenders comments for the November, 2011 Board of Game meeting in Barrow, Alaska.
100,000-Strong for Polar Bears - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Defenders of Wildlife Wallpaper - Free wildlife wallpaper to add to your computer desktop to show off your love of animals. Download your free animal wallpaper today!
DOI endorses bad Wyoming wolf plan - WASHINGTON (October 4, 2011) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published a proposed rule today that would remove federal protections for endangered gray wolves in Wyoming. USFWS is moving forward with the delisting even though the state wolf management plan has yet to be approved by the Wyoming legislature. As currently written, the plan treats wolves as predators, allowing the animals to be killed at any time by any means across nearly 90 percent of the state, including on the public’s national forests where wildlife management is a core purpose. Wolves in the rest of the state could still be killed with a hunting license, and this licensed hunting area will expand seasonally to allow for dispersing wolves. Inside Yellowstone National Park, wolves will remain fully protected.
Our Forests, Our Wolves - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Defenders Wyoming Gray Wolf Management Plan Comments - Defenders comments on the proposed Wyoming state wolf management plan, which was approved by Wyoming Game and Fish Commission on Sept. 14, 2011.

Defenders California:

National Solar Energy Plan Moves Closer to Final Stages - On the heels of President Obama’s State of the Union remarks to expand clean energy development, the Interior Department is moving to finalize the nation’s first solar energy program for public lands with the closing of the public comment period today. Over the past 90 days, the Bureau of Land Management has been seeking input on the Supplemental Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SPEIS) for solar development on public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
January Wildlife eNews: More Room for Bison; Seeking Safety for Panthers; Saying Goodbye -
California Dreaming: Lone wolf entering California marks historic conservation success - WASHINGTON (Dec. 30, 2011) – A lone dispersing wolf from Oregon, known as OR7, has crossed the border into northern California.
Lessons Learned: The Case Against a Scattershot Approach to Siting Solar - Last year, the Secretary of the Interior approved the first ever utility-scale solar power plants on public lands in the West. Despite increasing success in the utility-scale solar industry, federal land managers continue to evaluate the many pending applications in a reactive manner: solar companies submit applications to construct power plants and federal land managers react to those applications. This reactive process is incapable of providing the certainty necessary to build a successful solar industry.
Transmission: Revised Solar Plan Makes the Connection - The Interior Department’s revised solar energy plan for public lands will ensure existing transmission capacity can be accessed and needed new transmission will be developed in a timely manner.
California Sea Otter Fund Extended for Five More Years - Sea otters in California received some great news in September 2011 as Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation re-establishing the California Sea Otter Fund, the main source of funding for sea otter research and conservation efforts in the Golden State.
Summary of the Supplement to Draft PEIS: Revised Solar Plan Headed in Right Direction - The Interior Department’s revised solar plan for solar energy development on public lands proposes a three-part approach to balancing the need for clean energy with protection of sensitive resources. And it does so without changing the rules of the game for companies with pending applications. This revised plan was developed in response to extensive public comment, including joint recommendations offered by developers, major utilities, and conservation groups.
Flexibility: Revised Solar Plan Makes Room - The revised solar plan allows sufficient flexibility to meet the public land’s share of regional clean energy needs and support development of a strong American solar industry.
Judge Upholds Best Science to Protect Endangered Salmon from Pesticide Peril - Seattle, WA—Today, a federal judge upheld measures required to protect endangered salmon and steelhead from three highly toxic pesticides.
Wind-energy project proposed in California threatens thousands of birds - Conservation groups told the Kern County Board of Supervisors today that a large-scale wind-energy project proposed for the southern Sierra Nevada needs to go back to the drawing board and be redesigned to avoid risks to endangered California condors, golden eagles and other rare bird species. The groups filed a legal challenge in Kern County Superior Court seeking to reopen the environmental review for the 100-plus-turbine wind project approved by the county last month.

Defenders Florida:

New wildlife refuge established in Florida - Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar today announced the creation of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area in an effort to preserve the community’s ranching heritage and conserve the headwaters and fish and wildlife of the Everglades
Defenders of Wildlife welcomes Interior Department's new vision for national wildlife refuges - Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife’s president and former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, welcomed the Obama administration’s effort to frame a new conservation vision for the more than 150 million acres that make up America’s National Wildlife Refuge System.
Watch Out for Wildlife Week Proclamation: Florida -
Workshop Participants Build Their Land Trust's Vision of Climate Change Adaptation - Living Lands facilitated workshops at the most recent Southeastern Regional, Virginia, and Maryland land trust conferences to help the land trust community and their partners define their own vision for helping their communities adapt in the face of climate change. The goal of this facilitated workshop was to demonstrate a quick and inexpensive process by which land trusts can begin to envision how climate change adaptation is part of their land conservation mission, understand the effects of climate change on conservation values, and develop adaptation strategies.
Conservation groups urge Congress to help move large-scale renewable energy projects forward - A coalition of environmental groups working on renewable energy development told a congressional committee today that the unprecedented expansion of wind, solar and geothermal generation over the past two years represented real progress toward a clean energy future and was the result of coordination between their groups, renewable energy companies and federal agencies.
Saving Florida's Panthers - With only an estimated 100 to 160 remaining in the wild, Florida panthers are one of the most endangered mammals in the world.
In gross oversight, President Obama fails to acknowledge the devastating losses of wildlife resulting from BP%26#8217;s Gulf oil disaster - In President Obama’s acknowledgment today of the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil disaster, he failed to mention the enormous losses sustained by the Gulf ecosystem – not only to a fishing-dependent economy but to the thousands of animals killed or harmed by toxic oil and dispersants that persist in natural habitats even today.
Green Budget 2012: National Funding Priorities for the Environment - This report, referred to as the Green Budget, highlights the environmental communities' Fiscal Year 2012 national funding priorities.
Defenders of Wildlife announces planned retirement of its president and names his successor - Defenders of Wildlife Board of Directors Chair Vic Sher announced today that Rodger Schlickeisen is retiring as president and CEO of the organization effective October 1, 2011, and that Jamie Rappaport Clark, current executive vice president, will be his successor.
Oil Spill Commission final report outlines industry-wide safety lapses - The “Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling” today presented the results of its comprehensive, nonpartisan investigation of the worst environmental disaster in American history.

Defenders Endangered Species:

Obama administration right to reject Keystone Pipeline permit - WASHINGTON (January 18, 2012) – The following is a statement from Jamie Rappaport Clark, president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife:
January Wildlife eNews: More Room for Bison; Seeking Safety for Panthers; Saying Goodbye -
Defenders of Wildlife mourns tragic loss of friend and colleague David Gaillard - BOZEMAN, Mont. (Jan. 3, 2012) -- Defenders of Wildlife mourns the passing of David Gaillard. Dave was buried in an avalanche Saturday afternoon while cross-country skiing near Pilot Peak in the Shoshone National Forest south of Cooke City, Montana.
California Dreaming: Lone wolf entering California marks historic conservation success - WASHINGTON (Dec. 30, 2011) – A lone dispersing wolf from Oregon, known as OR7, has crossed the border into northern California.
Great Lakes wolves successfully recovered under Endangered Species Act - WASHINGTON (Dec. 21, 2011) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will be removing federal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes, including parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
Endangered Woodland Caribou Win Critical Habitat - PRIEST LAKE, Idaho (November 29, 2011) – Endangered woodland caribou will be protected across 375,562 acres in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho and northeastern Washington, thanks to a critical habitat designation handed down today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The long-awaited decision is the result of action taken by Defenders of Wildlife, Lands Council, Selkirk Conservation Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity.
Court upholds Endangered Species Act protections for Cook Inlet beluga whales - A federal judge today rejected the state of Alaska’s 2010 lawsuit that tried to strip Endangered Species Act protections for Cook Inlet beluga whales. The whales were listed as an endangered species in 2008. In today’s decision, the judge said that the best available science supports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s determination that Cook Inlet beluga whales are in danger of extinction. While hunting was initially considered the cause of the significant decline of belugas in the Inlet, the population has continued to decline after hunting ceased in 1999.
Groups file lawsuit to prevent illegal deaths of endangered whales - Conservation and animal protection groups filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court in Massachusetts to hold the National Marine Fisheries Service accountable for continuing to allow four federal fisheries to injure and kill endangered whales, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Conservation groups move to stop sea turtle deaths from shrimp trawling - Conservation groups today asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to hold the National Marine Fisheries Service accountable for its role in the shrimp trawl-related deaths of endangered sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico.
DOI endorses bad Wyoming wolf plan - WASHINGTON (October 4, 2011) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published a proposed rule today that would remove federal protections for endangered gray wolves in Wyoming. USFWS is moving forward with the delisting even though the state wolf management plan has yet to be approved by the Wyoming legislature. As currently written, the plan treats wolves as predators, allowing the animals to be killed at any time by any means across nearly 90 percent of the state, including on the public’s national forests where wildlife management is a core purpose. Wolves in the rest of the state could still be killed with a hunting license, and this licensed hunting area will expand seasonally to allow for dispersing wolves. Inside Yellowstone National Park, wolves will remain fully protected.

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