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September 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM

Fight for polar bears and clean air

Tell the EPA to protect people and the environment from climate pollution.   John,  In 2009 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a science-backed conclusion — called "the endangerment finding" — clearly stating that methane, carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gas emissions harm the clim…

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September 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM

Save sea turtles from deadly lights

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1313, September 5, 2025 Tell This County to Turn Off Lights for Turtles Every summer in Glynn County, Georgia, thousands of imperiled loggerhead sea turtles leave their nests and struggle across the sand to the ocean for their fi…

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September 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Trump unleashes biggest attack on the wild

Endangered Earth 500 species could be put at risk.               Give Now » Hi John, The Trump administration just launched its biggest attack on wildlife and public lands. Species from grizzly bears in Montana to …

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August 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Protect Wild Forests

Stop Trump’s roadless rule repeal.   John,  America’s roadless forests are sanctuaries for grizzly bears, gray wolves, salmon, spotted owls, and hundreds of other species. These lands — nearly 60 million acres of national forests — are some of the most intact, connected wildlife habitats left in the…

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August 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Save a Mexican wolf; Alligator Alcatraz arrested

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1312, August 28, 2025  Tell Secretary Burgum: Don’t Kill Another Mexican Wolf On behalf of the livestock industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture just shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico. In April it execut…

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August 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Feds to withhold protections for threatened species

Endangered Earth Cruel scheme targets threatened species.               Give Now » Hi John, The Trump administration is back to its dirty bag of tricks to cut protections for imperiled wildlife. Officials announced…

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August 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM

Don’t let deadbeat drillers hurt more wildlife

Help hold oil and gas companies accountable for cleaning up their old, dirty projects.   John,  Oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico are notorious for skipping out on their responsibilities to clean up after their projects. For decades, they’ve drilled greedily for fuel and then left their w…

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August 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Our 11th-hour reprieve for sacred lands

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1311, August 21, 2025   Federal Appeals Court Blocks Oak Flat Land Exchange  We’re celebrating a surprising milestone in the fight for Oak Flat, public lands in Arizona sacred to Indigenous peoples and habitat for species like en…

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August 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM

We just sued to save wildlife from Trump

Endangered Earth Endangered species are under attack.               Give Now » Hi John, Within hours of taking office, Trump declared a made-up energy emergency that his administration is still using as cover to att…

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August 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM

Defend marine life from deep-sea devastation

Tell the federal government to keep the ocean floor intact.  John,  The Trump administration wants to fast-track deep-sea mining by slashing environmental reviews that protect the seafloor, one of the largest and most fragile ecosystems on the planet.  A new federal proposal would let mining corpora…

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August 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Help beleaguered belugas

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1310, August 14, 2025  Save Cook Inlet Belugas From This Climate Disaster The critically endangered beluga whales of Cook Inlet, Alaska, are under threat — again. In the heart of their habitat, the Trump administration wants to …

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August 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM

500 wolves in Montana's crosshairs

Endangered Earth Help us stop Montana’s war on wolves.               Give Now » Hi John, Montana has upped the ante on wolf-killing. State officials want up to 500 wolves trapped and hunted this fall and winter — a…

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August 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM

Keep this dangerous pesticide off the shelf

Tell the EPA: Reapproving dicamba will cause immeasurable harm to pollinators and people.  John,  Last year we scored a court win revoking the use of dicamba, a dangerous herbicide, on genetically modified cotton and soybeans. We celebrated for the monarch butterflies, whooping cranes, rusty-patched…

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August 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Fight for forests

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1309, August 7, 2025  Stop Politicians’ Attack on National Forests  In a massive giveaway to the timber industry, members of Congress are poised to pass legislation that would boost logging in national forests while gutting prot…

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August 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Wolves, lynx sold out by the feds

Endangered Earth The Boundary Waters ecosystem must not be plundered.               Give Now » Hi John, Three endangered species, including the United States' largest population of endangered gray wolves, depend on …

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August 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM

Stay true to blue tree monitor lizards

Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to permanently protect these uniquely stunning reptiles.   John,  Blue tree monitor lizards aren’t just blue. They’re truly, vibrantly, and rather incredibly blue: a most unusual hue in the animal kingdom. Their unique coloration has made them prized targets…

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July 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Manatees and sea turtles deserve due diligence

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1308, July 31, 2025  Lawsuit Defends Gulf Species From Drilling The Center for Biological Diversity just filed a new legal claim in our lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to take a thorough look at how offshore…

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July 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Trump moves to pave the road to extinction

Endangered Earth Help keep chainsaws out of national forests.               Give Now » Hi John, Wolverines can range up to 15 miles a day — and cover hundreds of square miles in their lifetime. As few as 300 of thes…

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July 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Help sharks keep their fins

Tell Mexican officials to outlaw the possession, sale, and export of shark fins.   John,  It’s Shark Week, a time to marvel at these ancient sea animals and celebrate their mysterious — and often misunderstood — lives. Sharks play an important role in ocean ecosystems by maintaining the food web an…

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July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM

Tree vole goals

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1307, July 24, 2025  Lawsuit Aims to Protect Oregon Coast Red Tree Voles Red tree voles have graced the upper reaches of old forests on Oregon’s North Coast for thousands of years — some spend their entire lives in a single tree…

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July 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Trump, Army Corps want to poison waterways

Endangered Earth Don’t let precious waterways be turned into drainage dumps.               Give Now » Hi John, More than 400 manatees have died this year — at a pace even worse than last year. It had been hoped Flor…

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July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM

Give ghost orchids a chance at life

Tell the feds to protect this hauntingly beautiful flower as an endangered species.   John,  Found only in parts of Florida and Cuba, hauntingly beautiful ghost orchids have been the subject of countless articles, books, and films. Despite their fame, the flowers are barely surviving as poaching an…

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July 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM

Ice puppies prevail

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1306, July 17, 2025 Legal Victories for Seals, Squirrels, and Black Rails Arctic ringed seals are keeping their Endangered Species Act safeguards, thanks to our intervention in a lawsuit seeking to strip them of their protected s…

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July 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM

We sued to stop a detention center in the Everglades

Endangered Earth The Everglades should be home to wildlife, not prisons.               Give Now » Hi John, Deep within the Florida Everglades, the Trump administration and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are fast-tracking…

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July 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Help protect pangolins

Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect these scaly critters.  John,  In some ways, pangolins are funny: They’re the world’s only scaly mammal, they curl into an adorable ball when frightened, and they vaguely resemble a pinecone with legs.    But the threats to their survival are deadly…

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July 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Save Arctic wildlife from a fossil fuel fiasco

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1305, July 10, 2025  Stop More Disastrous Oil Drilling in the Arctic The Trump administration is trying to open vast swaths of public land to fossil fuel development by rolling back critical protections for the National Petrole…

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July 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Shooting bears from helicopters must end

Endangered Earth Helps us save brown and black bears in Alaska.               Give Now » Hi John, Summer in Alaska should be a time of rebirth, lush vegetation and long days of exploration in the wild. Instead, like…

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July 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM

Take Alaska bears out of the crosshairs

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1304, July 3, 2025  Stop the Aerial Gunning of Alaska Bears Alaska wildlife managers are once again proposing to shoot and kill bears from helicopters — for no good reason.  In a misguided effort to help declining caribou herds…

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July 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM

Today is the day to protect wildlife and public lands

The House of Representatives could vote today on H.R. 1 which sells out public lands and wildlife.   John,  The Senate just passed its version of the budget bill and now it’s back before the House. We succeeded valiantly in getting the sell-off of millions of acres of public lands tossed out, but th…

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July 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Attacks on public lands aren't letting up

Endangered Earth This is not a time to exhale. The fight goes on.               Give Now » Hi John, Although the sale of millions of acres of public lands was just defeated, Congress continues to push horrific attac…

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June 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM

Save jaguars from this border wall

A 30-foot-high steel wall could soon close off the last best jaguar corridor in the United States.   John,  The San Rafael Valley in Arizona is a breathtaking landscape of grasslands, riparian areas, and forested mountain foothills. It’s also one of the last wildlife migration corridors along the U…

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June 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM

Stoked for the Okefenokee

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1303, June 26, 2025 A Historic Win for the Wild in the Southeast A long and fierce campaign to protect the Okefenokee Swamp from mining has finally paid off.  For years, the Center for Biological Diversity and allies have held th…

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June 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM

John, this may be our last chance to save public lands

We're running out of time to protect public lands. Will you help?   John,  The Senate is about to vote on the largest attack on public lands in U.S. history — putting beloved places for camping, hiking, hunting, and recreating in danger of being stolen from the people forever.   Things are moving q…

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June 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Urgent: Stop the public lands sell-off

Endangered Earth Millions of acres of public lands are at risk of being sold.               Give Now » Hi John, The public has been betrayed at an unprecedented level. Wildlife and our natural heritage — and each on…

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June 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Stop the largest public lands sell-off in history

Tell the Senate to oppose this attack on U.S. public lands.   John,  It’s the largest attack on public lands in U.S. history: Senate Republicans have proposed selling off nearly 3 million acres of these lands as part of their tax bill. If this scheme goes through, it’ll pave the way for mega-mansio…

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June 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM

Speak out for jaguars and birds

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1302, June 19, 2025 Massive Mine Dealt Setback — Now Species Need You A big win for Arizona air: Thanks to a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and local allies, the Environmental Protection Agency has rejected Ariz…

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June 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Senate betrays wildlife, sells out public lands

Endangered Earth Auctioning off public lands is a disaster for wildlife and their habitat.               Give Now » Hi John, The biggest threat to public lands we've seen is now much closer to reality, thanks to ant…

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June 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Feds look to ‘abolish’ national monuments

Endangered Earth All gifts to the Future for the Wild Fund will be matched.               Give Now » Hi John, Just days ago, the Trump administration said it has the right to abolish national monuments. We know what…

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June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Courts pause two pernicious projects

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1301, June 12, 2025 Wins Against California Pipeline, Arizona Land Exchange Crucial victories in ongoing legal fights: Courts just halted two disastrous projects while our lawsuits proceed.  In California we scored big in our fig…

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June 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM

We'll sue to save manatees from DOGE

Endangered Earth Trump's attack on the wild must be fought.               Give Now » Hi John, The Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge is the only refuge created specifically to protect Florida manatees. But when …

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June 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM

Save turtles from deadly crab traps

Diamondback terrapins deserve better than being left to drown in cages.   John,  Between 60,000 and 80,000 diamondback terrapins drown in crab traps each year.  Lured into underwater cages by bait, the beautiful turtles can't escape to breathe — and they die painfully. These drownings have decimat…

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June 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Protect animals and people from this dangerous drug

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1300, June 5, 2025  Tell the FDA: It’s Past Time to Ban Ractopamine    Ractopamine is a drug used to rapidly grow muscle in cows, pigs, and turkeys who are being raised for meat. It has documented adverse effects on the health …

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June 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Help save Tongass old growth from chainsaws

Endangered Earth All gifts to our Future for the Wild Fund will be matched.               Give Now » Hi John, Covering most of Southeast Alaska, the Tongass is the largest national forest in the United States. But …

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May 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Saving toads from Trump’s agenda

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1299, May 29, 2025 Suit Filed Over Toads Found in Only One Place The Center for Biological Diversity just sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to finalize Endangered Species Act protection for critically imperiled …

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May 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Congress takes aim at largest wolf population

Endangered Earth The destruction of public lands must be stopped.               Give Now » Hi John, America's largest population of endangered wolves depends on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern …

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May 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM

Sound the alarm for right whales

Speak up against President Trump's plan to slash North Atlantic right whale protections.  John, North Atlantic right whales are among the world's most endangered whale species. More than 140 of them have been killed or injured since 2017. Now only 370 whales, including 70 breeding females, remain …

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May 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM

Put the heat on your governor to address climate impacts

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1298, May 22, 2025  Speak Up to Protect People From Extreme Heat Extreme heat kills more people than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined in the United States, claiming around 154 lives each day during heatwaves and hot sp…

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May 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Breaking: We sued Trump to save forests, grizzlies

Endangered Earth All gifts to the Future for the Wild Fund will be matched.               Give Now » Hi John, Grizzly bears are drawn to forests because they use the tree cover to sleep at night and stay cool in the…

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May 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM

Stop the sell out of public lands and wildlife

Tell your representative to oppose any bill that undermines conservation and environmental values.  John,  The all-out assault on wildlife, public lands, and the environment continues, this time in the form of the budget bill making its way through Congress. The proposal from Republicans on the H…

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May 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM

Dancing birds in danger

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1297, May 15, 2025  Trump Takes Aim at Lesser Prairie Chickens In a move both true to form and likely illegal, the Trump administration just asked a district court in Texas to end endangered species protection for lesser prairie…

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