One Step Closer to Better Funding for Wildlife Conservation

Lindsay Box

June 15, 2022

One Step Closer to Better Funding for Wildlife Conservation

By Adam Gebauer

On Tuesday, the US House passed the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, RAWA. This bipartisan conservation bill will fund $1.3 billion dollars annually to states, territories, and tribes to restore, protect, and conserve wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Lindsay Box

October 29, 2020

Wolf Delisting Update

Lindsay Box

October 29, 2020

Groups Challenge Trump Admin Removal of Endangered Species Protections in Lower 48

Today, the Trump administration will announce its decision to prematurely remove endangered species protections for wolves in the lower 48 states, in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The most recent data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its state partners show an estimated 4,400 wolves inhabit the western Great Lakes states, but only 108 wolves in Washington state, 158 in Oregon, and a scant 15 in California. These numbers lay the groundwork for a legal challenge planned by a coalition of Western conservation groups.

Lindsay Box

September 18, 2019

Chair Grijalva, Senator Udall Introduce Bill to Protect Endangered Species, Reverse Trump’s Changes That Will Add to Extinction Crisis

Lindsay Box

September 18, 2019

Chair Grijalva, Senator Udall Introduce Bill to Protect Endangered Species, Reverse Trump’s Changes That Will Add to Extinction Crisis

Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), lead Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, introduced legislation today to repeal all three Trump administration final rule changes to the Endangered Species Act, which taken together will fundamentally change the way we protect threatened and endangered species.