Save the Gulf From Another Oil Spill
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In 2010 the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 people and spewing about 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of animals — from seabirds and sea turtles to marine mammals — were injured or killed.
Now BP is back. Reports indicate it wants to drill and frack in even deeper Gulf waters, where oil is under extreme pressure. Reaching that oil will be risky and test the limits of drilling technology. It will also threaten key habitat for critically endangered Rice's whales, who were seriously hurt by the 2010 spill. With only around 50 left, another disastrous oil spill could drive these whales extinct.
Oil and gas development in the Gulf has caused spill after spill. It hurts people and wildlife directly and perpetuates the use of climate-killing fossil fuels. Thankfully federal law gives the U.S. Department of the Interior the authority to reject plans — like this one — that risk serious, unacceptable harm to the environment. Take action: Tell Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to reject BP's disastrous new drilling plan. |
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Pup Born to Colorado’s Newly Released Wolves |
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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Red Tree Voles |
The Center and allies just filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for denying Endangered Species Act protection to the imperiled North Oregon Coast population of red tree voles.
Threatened by logging and climate change-fueled wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, these tiny "tree hamsters" (not really hamsters, of course) spend almost their whole lives in treetops eating conifer needles. Most animals find pine needles gross, but clever tree voles know just how to remove the nasty bits.
The Center has been fighting for North Oregon Coast red tree voles since our 2007 petition, and we’re not giving up now. |
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Saving a Zoological Oasis in Arizona’s Chiricahuas |
The Center and allies just petitioned the U.S. Forest Service to give special protection to a beautiful 5,500-acre swath of the western Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona. The agency has the power to safeguard a beautiful canyon and its perennial waters as a “zoological-botanical area.” If our petition is granted, it will offer protection from road construction, motorized recreation, and new mining.
The canyon’s wildlife ranges from coatimundis to jaguars to elegant trogons. Its agaves, grasses, forbs, oaks, and other plants are of cultural importance to the region’s Apache and Tohono O’odham peoples.
“This stunning area is threatened by a proposal to open a road right through the canyon’s heart,” said the Center’s Laiken Jordahl. |
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Revelator: Summer Reads on Wildlife and More |
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That’s Wild: Sounds of the Underground |
More than half the species on Earth live in the soil, yet that subterranean world is scarcely known to us. Now UK scientists are listening to the doings of creatures beneath the surface, from earthworms to voles, and sampling the soil audioscapes of different sites around the globe under different conditions. So far much of what they’re hearing remains a mystery. But it’s very cool to hear — listen for yourself. |
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