Suing Over Trump Cuts to Elephant, Rhino Programs |
The Center for Biological Diversity just sued the Trump administration over its delay in complying with our request for information on funding cuts to international wildlife conservation.
In February Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency froze grants for elephant research, programs to curb rhino poaching and turtle trafficking, and other campaigns helping endangered species outside the United States. The Center immediately filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details on the freeze (and any potential justification for it), but we still haven’t gotten a response — and wildlife can’t wait.
“With zero notice or transparency, the Trump administration yanked critical funds for iconic animals many U.S. children dream of seeing in the wild,” said Sarah Uhlemann, international director at the Center. “These incredible creatures may eventually exist only in books unless we fight for them.” You can fight for them too. Speak up to save beloved Amboseli elephants — the longest-studied elephants in the world — from poaching. |
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Map: Trump’s Public Land Sales Would Hurt Wildlife |
According to a new map analysis by the Center, the Trump administration’s plan to sell off federal public land for sprawl development could bulldoze vital habitat across the West for desert tortoises, Canadian lynx, Pacific martens, and a long list of other imperiled species. Hundreds of protected lands and waterways, including national monuments, meet the Interior Department’s target criteria to sell roughly 400,000 acres to local governments and private developers. “It’s appalling that Trump wants to steal these public lands from the public so fat cat developers can build malls, McMansions, and data centers,” said the Center’s Randi Spivak. “No one voted to have their favorite campsite paved over and rare animals driven to extinction.” Help us defend these lands with a gift to the Future for the Wild Fund — you can still get your donation doubled. |
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Support the Scientists Calling Out Duke Energy |
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Millions Protest Trump, Musk |
On Saturday an estimated 3 million people in some 1,400 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states — with more than 150 groups involved, including the Center — protested the authoritarian, power-grabbing actions of President Donald Trump and political appointee Elon Musk. Rallies were even held in faraway places like London and Paris in solidarity with the American people.
Center staff and supporters attended rallies in numerous places — including Tucson, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Washington, D.C.
Head to YouTube for some highlights. And stay tuned — more protests are coming up. Let’s take the power back. |
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Help Save Black-Footed Ferrets on Tribal Lands |
The Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance is a nonprofit supporting Tribal efforts to save critically endangered black-footed ferrets. These long-bodied little prairie-dog hunters, brought back from near extinction in the 1980s, are still threatened by sylvatic plague across their Great Plains habitat. So the Alliance unites Tribes in crucial work like vaccinating ferrets, monitoring populations, and dusting prairie-dog burrows for plague-spreading fleas.
Now the Trump administration has frozen funds for the group — and the whole black-footed ferret recovery program. The Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance is a great friend of the Center and desperately needs donations to make sure these ferrets don’t disappear from Tribal lands.
Can you chip in? |
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Revelator: What's Next for These Woodpeckers? |
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That’s Wild: Penguin Poop Repulses Krill |
Antarctic krill are the cornerstone of their ecosystem — tiny, shrimplike crustaceans who are eaten in tremendous volume by whales, seals, and penguins. Adélie penguins, in fact, have a diet that’s over 99% krill. And recent science experiments have shown that krill, when immersed in water containing penguin guano along with the algae they like to eat, avoid the guano like the plague, zigzagging around to get away from it.
Is it just that they object to the guano’s powerful smell — which, one scientist says, sends researchers running? Or are the krill reacting to chemical cues telling them that guano is full of the bodies of their own kind?
Both krill and penguins are in existential peril from climate change and other human-driven forces, of course. Adding insult to injury, a few penguin species — though not Adélies — have even been slapped with new Trump tariffs placed on their home islands (uninhabited by people).
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