The National Park Service finalized a regulation that abdicates the agency's responsibility to manage wildlife in Alaska's ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today released its proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement seeking to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a bedrock law that protects 45 ...

Defenders of Wildlife today sent a letter to the Department of Interior and the Department of Commerce signaling its intent to sue over the administration’s rescission of the long-standing definition ...

Across the United States and its territories is a system of federal lands dedicated to protecting and restoring wildlife. This system is, of course, the National Wildlife Refuge System. These refuges ...

America’s iconic landscapes are filled with endless opportunities to recreate and are also home to a diverse array of wildlife, including gray wolves. As you lace up your boots or strap on your ...

Across the West, pronghorn still migrate more than 150 miles between seasonal ranges. Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles across the continent, generation by generation. In cold mountain ...

The GOP Leadership in the House of Representatives today pulled its scheduled vote on Rep. Bruce Westerman’s (R-AR) ESA Amendments Act of 2025 — more aptly called the Extinction Act. The legislation ...

Defenders of Wildlife today condemned the Trump administration’s reckless FY27 budget proposal that calls on Congress to slash critical funding vital to wildlife conservation. Chris Westfall, senior ...

A decision made by the Endangered Species Committee, colloquially known as “The God Squad,” can lead to the survival or the extinction of a species. By law, the God Squad only meets when an applicant ...

The Trump administration today announced its intent to convene the Endangered Species Committee — colloquially known as the “God Squad”— on March 31, 2026, to consider an exemption under the ...

Colorado is gearing up to welcome back one of nature's most fearless creatures: the wolverine. These powerful, medium-sized members of the weasel family are uniquely adapted for cold, high-alpine ...

The National Wildlife Refuge System is the world’s largest system of lands and waters dedicated to the conservation of wildlife. That system is much more than a collection of boundaries drawn on the ...