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  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM

We sued to protect Alaska's Western Arctic

Endangered Earth All gifts made by Dec. 31 will be matched.               Give Now » Hi John, Alaska's Western Arctic is one of the largest, most biodiverse tracts of public land in the United States. Yet the Trump…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Save the last jaguar migration corridors

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1328, December 18, 2025  Tell the Feds: Jaguars Belong HereJaguars are returning to the U.S. Southwest — or trying to, anyway.   Earlier this year two of these endangered cats crossed from Sonora, Mexico, into their ancient hom…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Congress won’t slow us down

Endangered Earth The Center won't stop fighting for what’s right.               Give Now » Hi John, Canada lynx are elusive, solitary cats. They once ranged from Alaska deep into the lower 48 states, but their popul…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM

You're invited: Rally for the Endangered Species Act

Join us on Dec. 18 to oppose the Trump administration's extinction plan.  John,The Endangered Species Act is the world's most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump administration is preparing to finalize four new rules that would gut the Act and drive imperiled plants a…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM

Defend the Clean Water Act from destruction

The Trump administration wants to gut protections for millions of acres of wetlands and streams.  John, All life on Earth needs water to survive — and wetlands are among the most productive and biodiverse water sources in the world. They're essential to 40% of animals and plants, from the top to th…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Save endangered wildlife from the checkout line

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1327, December 11, 2025  Tell Petco, PetSmart: Don’t Sell Exotic Animals Every year about 90 million amphibians, arachnids, birds, aquarium fish, mammals, and reptiles are imported and funneled into the U.S. pet trade, accordin…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM

We're being investigated because we win

Endangered Earth The Center's fight for the wild will not stop.               Give Now » Hi John, America's largest population of gray wolves depends on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesot…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM

The Center is under attack

Extreme Republicans in Congress just launched a sham investigation into us.  John,  The most extreme, anti-conservation Republicans in Congress just launched a sham investigation into the Center for Biological Diversity. Why? Because we’ve been an outspoken — and successful — force against a massiv…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM

The Center won't be intimidated

Endangered Earth Please see this important video message.               Far-right Republicans just launched yet another congressional assault on the Center for Biological Diversity. We aren't scared. And our fight to protect wil…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM

Emergency: GOP launches 2nd sham 'investigation' of Center

Endangered Earth We're not intimidated, but we need your help.               Give Now » Hi John, Far-right Republicans just launched yet another congressional assault on the Center for Biological Diversity. This new…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM

Stop the confirmation of a public lands enemy

Tell your senators to oppose the nomination of Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management.   John,  Former Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico spent his congressional career attacking public lands and endangered species. Now President Donald Trump has picked him to lead the U.S. Bureau of Land …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM

Protect this bedrock environmental law

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1326, December 4, 2025  Save the National Environmental Policy Act  As early as next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on legislation that would gut the National Environmental Policy Act — NEPA for short — and le…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM

Hours left this Giving Tuesday - We're counting on you

Endangered Earth All Giving Tuesday gifts will be matched dollar for dollar. John, I want to make sure you saw my emails earlier. This morning, we launched a new lawsuit to secure a future for gray wolves. Hours later, we took legal action to end an industry lawsuit that attempted to hamp…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Breaking: We just sued to save gray wolves

Endangered Earth Giving Tuesday gifts will be matched.               Give Now » Hi John, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has given up trying to save gray wolves. The Endangered Species Act requires a recovery pla…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM

This Giving Tuesday, help save the Endangered Species Act

Endangered Earth Donations to the Future for the Wild will be doubled.v               Give Now » Hi John, Every single species clinging to survival has just been pushed closer to the brink. Decimating the Endangered…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM

What you can give the wild today

Endangered Earth All gifts to the Future for the Wild will be matched.               Give Now » Hi John, The messages around us today are business as usual — but these are not usual times. If you're being bombarded …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM

A tough spot for spotted owls

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1325, November 27, 2025  Final Protection Sought for California Spotted Owls The Center for Biological Diversity and allies have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force it to finalize Endangered Species Act protections …
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Endangered species face biggest threat yet

Endangered Earth The Endangered Species Act must be kept at full strength.               Give Now » Hi John, As few as 120 Florida panthers remain in the wild. If Trump's new plan for the Endangered Species Act move…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM

Stop Trump’s extinction plan

New proposals for implementing the Endangered Species Act spell disaster for imperiled wildlife like monarchs and manatees.   John,  The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that wou…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM

Urgent: Trump launches assault on Endangered Species Act

Endangered Earth The Act is critical to saving wildlife from extinction.               Give Now » Hi John, Trump just took a hatchet to the Endangered Species Act. His latest attack is a blueprint for extinction — …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Protect wildlife and people from this poisonous pesticide

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1324, November 20, 2025  Tell the Feds: Atrazine Pollutes, Drives Extinction  Atrazine is banned in 60 countries, but it’s the second-most-used herbicide in the United States — even though it’s one of the nation’s most common w…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Trump's targeting won't stop us

Endangered Earth We won’t be bullied or silenced.               Give Now » Hi John, The Center for Biological Diversity is facing the most serious threats we've ever seen from Washington, DC. First there were credib…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM

No drilling in the Western Arctic Reserve

This irreplaceable ecosystem is home to polar bears, caribou, and countless other species.   John,  The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is planning to allow destructive oil drilling in about 16 million acres of the Western Arctic Reserve in Alaska. This wild, ecologically rich region is home to spe…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM

Resisting this road to Arctic ruin

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1323, November 13, 2025 Suit Filed to Save Izembek Refuge in Alaska This week the Center for Biological Diversity teamed up with Alaska Native Tribes to sue the Trump administration for trading away public lands to enable a devas…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM

Breaking: We just sued to stop bear-killing in Alaska

Endangered Earth Alaska’s predator-control program must be shut down.               Give Now » Hi John, Alaska officials have been on a bear-killing rampage. They've killed almost 200 over the past three years — an…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Wildlife and public lands need your voice

Tell the Bureau of Land Management not to gut the Public Lands Rule.  John,  U.S. public lands are home to an amazing array of wildlife — pronghorns, imperiled songbirds, sage grouse, desert tortoises, and countless other species. When the Bureau of Land Management makes decisions about these vast …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM

A grizzly suit bears fruit

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1322, November 6, 2025  Court Win for Montana Grizzly Bears The grizzlies of the stunning Yaak Valley, in Montana, got a welcome reprieve last week. In response to a 2022 lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM

Trump's Alaska Day is a nightmare

Endangered Earth Big Oil wants to drill away Alaska and the Arctic.               Give Now » Hi John, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Big Oil-friendly officials just unveiled a horrifying plan to plunder Alaska's…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM

🦇 Bats belong in the wild — not on walls

This Halloween, tell Amazon to stop selling painted woolly bats.  John,  It’s Halloween. All around we see spooky representations of witches, pumpkins, cats, bats, and more.  But some Halloween decorations are real painted woolly bats collected from the wild — killed, stuffed, and hung on walls thou…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Making change for marmots

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1321, October 30, 2025  Lawsuit Aims to Help Olympic Marmots Olympic marmots — large, round-bodied squirrels who live almost entirely inside Olympic National Park in Washington state — are threatened by climate change and coyot…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Trump's new assault on the Arctic must be stopped

Endangered Earth We'll fight to keep Big Oil out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.               Give Now » Hi John, The Trump administration just moved to open up the entire coastal plain of the Arctic Nation…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM

Emergency: Trump targeting the Center

Endangered Earth We won't be bullied.               Give Now » Hi John, The Center for Biological Diversity and all we stand for are being targeted. A far-right think tank has put the Center on a list of organizatio…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Standing strong for delicate glass lizards

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1320, October 23, 2025  Help Sought for Tail-Dropping, Legless Lizards  The Center for Biological Diversity has just filed a petition to protect little reptiles called mimic glass lizards under the Endangered Species Act. These…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Yellowstone wolf shot and killed in Montana

Endangered Earth Wolves in the northern Rockies need federal protection.               Give Now » Hi John, Only two days into Montana's wolf-hunting season, a beloved Yellowstone wolf from the Jackson Butte pack was…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM

Don't bulldoze desert tortoise habitat

This unique desert landscape is no place for a four-lane highway.   John,  In 2024 the U.S. Bureau of Land Management rejected plans to bulldoze a four-lane highway through the beloved Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in southwest Utah — a place that’s protected for the northernmost population …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Pocket mouse protectors make progress

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1,319, October 16, 2025  In California, a Pocket Mouse Could Get State Help  After a Center for Biological Diversity petition, California’s Fish and Game Commission has voted unanimously to make Pacific pocket mice candidates for…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM

558 manatees dead so far this year

Endangered Earth Florida's manatees urgently need more protection.               Give Now » Hi John, The die-off of Florida manatees has escalated this year. A total of 558 deaths have been reported — nearly 100 mor…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM

Join us for the virtual Food Justice Film Festival

Learn more about how food affects communities and the planet.  John,  The Center for Biological Diversity invites you to our sixth annual virtual Food Justice Film Festival, Oct. 23-26. This year’s festival will feature four documentary films highlighting links between food sovereignty, agricultura…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM

Every darter has its day

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1318, October 9, 2025 Endangered Candy Darter Saved From Coal Hauling  A colorful little fish called the candy darter has been spared the ongoing threat of coal hauling in West Virginia’s Cherry River watershed following a lawsui…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Feds ready to pull the plug on threatened species

Endangered Earth We'll fight each and every attack on the Endangered Species Act.               Give Now » Hi John, Just before the government shut down last week, the Trump administration took a massive swipe at t…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM

Landmark win for rare larks

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1317, October 2, 2025  Win Could Boost Protection for Streaked Horned Larks  In response to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Bird Alliance of Oregon, a judge has struck down a federal finding that streaked ho…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM

Collision leaves mountain lion cubs orphaned

Endangered Earth More mountain lions will die without wildlife connectivity.               Give Now » Hi John, A mountain lion in Southern California was killed this month in a vehicle collision. Her two cubs, just…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Keep our forests wild and roadless

Tell Congress to cosponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act.   John,  America’s roadless forests are some of the most intact, connected wildlife habitats left in the country. They’re sanctuaries where grizzly bears, salmon, spotted owls, California condors, and hundreds of other imperiled species …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM

Grizzlies before grazing

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1316, September 25, 2025 Win for Grizzlies Near Yellowstone  A federal court just found that the U.S. Forest Service broke the law when it approved expanded livestock grazing north of Yellowstone National Park in Montana, where g…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Another mother orca grieves her calf

Endangered Earth As few as 73 Southern Resident orcas remain.               Give Now » Hi John, Tragic news from the Pacific Northwest: Just days ago a Southern Resident killer whale known as Alki was seen carrying …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM

Earless monitor lizards need your help

Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect these lizards and ban their trade.   John,  As any fairy tale will tell you, dragons are best kept at a safe distance — not as pets.  That advice also applies to adorably dragon-like earless monitor lizards: captivating creatures whose only habitat …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM

Save whales and sea turtles from drilling and spilling

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1315, September 18, 2025 Protect Sea Life From Another Oil Spill   In 2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig exploded, killing 11 people. The resulting spill poured up to 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico a…
  Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM

458 wolves in Montana's crosshairs

Endangered Earth Wolves in the northern Rockies need federal protection.               Give Now » Hi John, A single person can now kill 30 wolves in one hunting and trapping season in Montana. Long the epicenter of …
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Protect whales from deadly entanglement

Tell NOAA Fisheries to allow pop-up fishing gear to save marine mammals.   John,  Humans have just begun to understand the lives of awe-inspiring ocean dwellers like massive blue whales, singing humpbacks, and ancient sea turtles. Meanwhile outdated fishing gear has been entangling, injuring, and ki…
  Center for Biological Diversity · [email protected]
September 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM

Dive into our defense of the Everglades

Endangered Earth: Take action and get your weekly wildlife update. No. 1314, September 11, 2025   Join Us in the Fight Against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  Following an appeal by Florida and the Trump administration, federal appeals judges have put the brakes on a lower court’s injunction — won by the Cent…