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Defenders Press Releases:

Defenders of Wildlife calls on Congress to restore funding for National Wildlife Refuge System - The U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System, which fuels the economic engine of local communities in all 50 states, is under threat from an Obama Administration proposal to significantly cut the system's budget.
Sage grouse is in danger of extinction, feds say - (WASHINGTON, Mar. 5, 2010) - A statement from Defenders of Wildlife's senior vice president Bob Irvin on the status of the sage grouse.
More than 145,000 speak out against corporate sponsored wolf killing contests - As of today, more than 145,000 people have joined Defenders of Wildlife in calling on Cabela's and Sportsman's Warehouse to end their sponsorship of predator derbies in which contestants in Idaho this winter vied to kill wildlife for points and prizes (and wolf kills fetched the highest points).
California Sea Otter Fund%26#8217;s survival in jeopardy - (MONTEREY BAY, Calif., February 24, 2010)--California taxpayers have coughed up a lot of clams for their struggling sea otters over the past four years. Still, the California Sea Otter Fund, a tax check-off program, narrowly missed raising enough money to make the tax form this year.
Defenders mourns the loss of FWS Director Sam Hamilton - Defenders of Wildlife mourns the loss of Sam Hamilton, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Mexican wolf numbers down to 42 - Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that the Mexican wolf population plummeted by 20 percent in 2009, according to its annual year-end survey of the recovery area spanning New Mexico and Arizona.
Obama's budget includes key funding for land and water - WASHINGTON, D.C. - A broad coalition of conservation and recreation organizations today applauded a budget request by President Barack Obama that significantly increases funding for outdoor recreation and strategic land investments through the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), the federal government's primary program to protect America's irreplaceable natural, historic, recreational, and other treasured landscapes.
Some notable gains for wildlife in Obama%26#8217;s budget - The following is a statement from Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen, in response to President Obama's budget:
Conservation groups in court to save highly endangered whales - ATLANTA--Conservation groups today challenged the U.S. Navy's decision to build its $100 million Undersea Warfare Training Range next to the only known calving ground for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The Southern Environmental Law Center, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Humane Society of the United States, and nine other conservation groups brought the challenge.
Congress should end tax breaks for polluters, invest in green economy - As President Obama calls for fiscal restraint in domestic spending, a coalition of conservation and wildlife organizations echoed the call and released a "Green Budget" report today outlining what Congress can do to create jobs while strengthening key environmental programs -- including cutting wasteful spending by nearly $20 billion per year.
Wild bumble bees teeter on brink of extinction - The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council and Dr. Robbin Thorp today submit a citizen petition to the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) requesting the Secretary to take action to regulate the movement and health of commercial bumble bees.
Shell Oil Chukchi Sea drilling plans challenged - Anchorage, AK - Conservation and Alaska Native groups called for a timeout on oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea yesterday, filing a legal challenge against Shell Oil's permit to drill in the region next summer. The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) approved drilling in the Chukchi Sea after doing only an abbreviated and internal review of its potential harms and despite significant concerns surrounding Shell's oil leases.
Nine invasive snakes proposed for import ban - The following is a statement from Peter Jenkins, director of international conservation at Defenders of Wildlife, and coauthor of Broken Screens, a 2007 report calling for better regulation of live animal imports into the United States.
Environmental groups applaud state for taking enforcement action against coal ash landfill - WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 15, 2010) - The Environmental groups announced their support today for the Maryland Department of the Environment's decision to take enforcement action against Mirant MD Ash Management, LLC and Mirant Mid-Atlantic, LLC for violations of the federal Clean Water Act and state law at the Brandywine coal ash landfill. The groups include the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and the Patuxent Riverkeeper.
Endangered jaguars will get a recovery plan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says - TUCSON, Ariz. (January 12, 2010) -- With only a handful of jaguars still known to roam the Southwest's wild lands, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will begin to draw up a recovery plan and set aside the habitat that's essential for the perilously endangered cat's survival and eventual recovery.

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:

Help Save Elephants from the Ivory Trade - Urge representatives of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) to reject any proposals to trade elephant ivory and support improved international protections for elephants.
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
Urge Your Senators to Stand on the Side of Wildlife - Urge your Senators to stand up for polar bears and other imperiled wildlife by co-sponsoring the Natural Resources Climate Adaptation Act, new legislation to protect our natural treasures in a warming world.
Urge your Senators to support legislation to end aerial gunning of wolves. - Urge your Senators to support the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act -- vital legislation to end aerial gunning of wolves.
Stop the Invasion of the Exotic Wildlife! - Each year, pythons and hundreds of millions of other non-native wild animals are imported into the U.S. with no good way of screening out species that can harm native ecosystems or threaten human health. Urge Congress to help stop this exotic wildlife invasion!
Urge the Senate to Protect Wildlife Worldwide! - The U.S. is one of just two countries in the world that have yet to ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity -- -- a vital international agreement to protect and preserve the world's rich diversity of life.
Join Jeff Corwin to Help Save Wildlife from Global Warming - Join Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin in the fight to protect wildlife threatened by global warming.
Protect Wildlife Threatened by Climate Change! Write a Letter to the Editor... - Write a letter to the editor of your local paper and help build support for efforts to protect wildlife threatened by climate change.
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Don't Let Congress Wreck the Clean Air Act! - Urge your Members of Congress to oppose any attempts to weaken the Clean Air Act that would sabotage efforts to regulate greenhouse gases.
Save U.S. Jaguars and Other Borderlands Wildlife - Write your Representative today and ask him or her to support legislation that secures our border and protects our wildlife.
Stop Corporate-Sponsored Wolf Killing - Add your name to our petition urging Cabela's and Sportsman's Warehouse to withdraw their support for "predator derbies" that target wolves.
Help Stop the Utah Anti-Wolf Bill - Write to Utah Governor Gary Herbert and the state tourism board urging them to oppose SB36 -- legislation that would require state wildlife officials to kill or remove all wolves in the state.
Urge President Obama to End the War on Wolves - Urge President Obama to restore life-saving protections for wolves in the northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone

Defenders Wolves:

Don't Let Congress Wreck the Clean Air Act -
More than 145,000 speak out against corporate sponsored wolf killing contests - As of today, more than 145,000 people have joined Defenders of Wildlife in calling on Cabela's and Sportsman's Warehouse to end their sponsorship of predator derbies in which contestants in Idaho this winter vied to kill wildlife for points and prizes (and wolf kills fetched the highest points).
Mexican wolf numbers down to 42 - Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that the Mexican wolf population plummeted by 20 percent in 2009, according to its annual year-end survey of the recovery area spanning New Mexico and Arizona.
Letter from Washington State Department of Fish and Game RE: Wolf Management - Letter from Washington State Department of Fish and Game RE: Wolf Management
Endangered Species Rewards - Fact sheet about the Endangered Species Reward Fund. Includes a list of rewards offered.
Major Milestone for Mexican Wolves! - Under mounting legal pressure from Defenders of Wildlife and our allies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) agreed in November 2009 to end a "three strikes and you're out" policy that has frustrated efforts to rescue endangered Mexican gray wolves from extinction in the wild.
Big Win for Lobos - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Idaho extends hunt into denning season - The Idaho Fish and Game Commission decided yesterday to extend its wolf hunt in more hunting units across the state through March 31, or until each hunting zone reaches its quota.
Endangered Mexican gray wolves get a boost on road to recovery - TUCSON, Ariz. (Nov. 13, 2009) -- The Mexican gray wolf recovery effort took a pivotal turn in the right direction today as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclaimed its decision-making authority over management of this highly endangered animal that roams Arizona and New Mexico's backcountry.
Four Committee Chairmen Call Urge Salazar to Withdraw Solicitor's Opinion - Letter to Secretary Ken Salazar from George Miller, Norm Dicks, John Dingell and Nick Rahall urging the withdrawal of Salazar's ESA opinion regarding the delisting gray wolves in the Rocky Mountains.
Heartbreak Highway for Panthers - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Northern Rockies Wolf Recovery Map - 2009 Northern Rockies Wolf Recovery Map
Carnivore Conservation in a Changing World: Final Layout of Sessions - Carnivore Conservation in a Changing World: Preliminary Session Schedule
Full list of payments in the Northern Rockies and Southwest - Full list of wolf compensation payments paid by Defenders to ranchers in the Northern Rockies and Southwest
Statistics on Payments From the Defenders Wildlife Founda%26quot;_move_id%26quot; - Wolf Compensation Statistics

Defenders California:

California Sea Otter Fund%26#8217;s survival in jeopardy - (MONTEREY BAY, Calif., February 24, 2010)--California taxpayers have coughed up a lot of clams for their struggling sea otters over the past four years. Still, the California Sea Otter Fund, a tax check-off program, narrowly missed raising enough money to make the tax form this year.
Defenders Comments on the Ivanpah Solar Project - Defenders of Wildlife's comments to the BLM on a solar energy project in the California Desert.
Green Budget 2011: National Funding Priorities for the Environment - This report, referred to as the Green Budget, highlights the environmental communities' Fiscal Year 2011 national funding priorities.
Share Your Photos %26amp; Stories - Share Your Photos and Stories with Defenders of Wildlife through our Photo Contest, WildChild Pledge and Flickr
Wild Child Earth Day Pledge - Thanks to the thousands of defenders out there who took the Wild Child Earth Day Pledge and all of the people representing 38 states -- plus Australia, England and Germany -- who wrote in to tell us about their adventures! We got a real kick out of seeing your Wild Child photos and hearing about your favorite childhood memories and most treasured outdoor spots.
California senator makes bid to protect the Mojave Desert - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Dec. 22, 2009)--Although California's Mojave Desert has recently drawn national attention as ground-zero in the nation's transition to renewable power, California Senator Dianne Feinstein aims to put the spotlight back on what makes the Mojave such a remarkable place.
Private lands could host more solar, wind power - WASHINGTON--California Senator Dianne Feinstein and Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Renewable Incentive Act (S 2899) Thursday to encourage renewable energy companies to build their solar and wind power plants on privately held lands - shifting the focus away from fragile areas on public lands in the Mojave desert.
Option A Test For GWO Demonstration - This is a test
Senate bill betters odds for sea otter survival - A bill recently floated by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) aims to help turn the tide for California's declining population of sea otters.
Court rules that southern Calif. forest plans violate environmental laws - SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal district court judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. Forest Service management plans for four Southern California national forests did not adequately protect those forests' wildest landscapes.

Defenders Florida:

Don't Let Congress Wreck the Clean Air Act -
Defenders mourns the loss of FWS Director Sam Hamilton - Defenders of Wildlife mourns the loss of Sam Hamilton, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Help Stop Utah's Anti-Wolf Bill! - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Green Budget 2011: National Funding Priorities for the Environment - This report, referred to as the Green Budget, highlights the environmental communities' Fiscal Year 2011 national funding priorities.
Conservation groups in court to save highly endangered whales - ATLANTA--Conservation groups today challenged the U.S. Navy's decision to build its $100 million Undersea Warfare Training Range next to the only known calving ground for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The Southern Environmental Law Center, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Humane Society of the United States, and nine other conservation groups brought the challenge.
Nine invasive snakes proposed for import ban - The following is a statement from Peter Jenkins, director of international conservation at Defenders of Wildlife, and coauthor of Broken Screens, a 2007 report calling for better regulation of live animal imports into the United States.
Wild Child Earth Day Pledge - Thanks to the thousands of defenders out there who took the Wild Child Earth Day Pledge and all of the people representing 38 states -- plus Australia, England and Germany -- who wrote in to tell us about their adventures! We got a real kick out of seeing your Wild Child photos and hearing about your favorite childhood memories and most treasured outdoor spots.
Share Your Photos %26amp; Stories - Share Your Photos and Stories with Defenders of Wildlife through our Photo Contest, WildChild Pledge and Flickr
Feds agree endangered Florida manatees need more habitat protection - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that new critical habitat protections are warranted for Florida's endangered manatee, but the agency will wait for increased funding before it takes action.
2010: The Year for Our Wildlife - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter

Defenders Endangered Species:

Sage grouse is in danger of extinction, feds say - (WASHINGTON, Mar. 5, 2010) - A statement from Defenders of Wildlife's senior vice president Bob Irvin on the status of the sage grouse.
Help Stop Utah's Anti-Wolf Bill! - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Mexican wolf numbers down to 42 - Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that the Mexican wolf population plummeted by 20 percent in 2009, according to its annual year-end survey of the recovery area spanning New Mexico and Arizona.
Conservation groups in court to save highly endangered whales - ATLANTA--Conservation groups today challenged the U.S. Navy's decision to build its $100 million Undersea Warfare Training Range next to the only known calving ground for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The Southern Environmental Law Center, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Humane Society of the United States, and nine other conservation groups brought the challenge.
Letter from Washington State Department of Fish and Game RE: Wolf Management - Letter from Washington State Department of Fish and Game RE: Wolf Management
2010: The Year for Our Wildlife - Defenders Wildlife eNewsletter
Donations Triple Reward for Information on Shooting of Whooping Crane Near Cayuga, Indiana - Dec 15 2009 USFWS Press Release: Donations Triple Reward for Information on Shooting of Whooping Crane Near Cayuga, Indiana
Lifeline to endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales as Feds designate critical habitat - WASHINGTON (December 1, 2009) - Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its proposal to designate "critical habitat" as part of the Cook Inlet beluga whales' recovery. Below is a statement from Defenders of Wildlife Executive Vice President Jamie Clark.
Endangered Mexican gray wolves get a boost on road to recovery - TUCSON, Ariz. (Nov. 13, 2009) -- The Mexican gray wolf recovery effort took a pivotal turn in the right direction today as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclaimed its decision-making authority over management of this highly endangered animal that roams Arizona and New Mexico's backcountry.
Four Committee Chairmen Call Urge Salazar to Withdraw Solicitor's Opinion - Letter to Secretary Ken Salazar from George Miller, Norm Dicks, John Dingell and Nick Rahall urging the withdrawal of Salazar's ESA opinion regarding the delisting gray wolves in the Rocky Mountains.