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Denial Of Gray Wolf Protections Violated Endangered Species Act, Judge Rules Republican-backed wolf-culling campaigns may wind up triggering federal protections again.

So a judge just ruled that the hunting policies of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho threaten wolf recovery. But the former head of Wyoming's wildlife dept, which created some of these policies, now leads the agency that will decide whether wolves should be protected. hmmmm 🌎

6 Pressing Questions About Beef and Climate Change, Answered There are a lot of misconceptions swirling about beef, its environmental impacts, how it's produced and whether to eat it. We examined the latest research to separate myth from fact.

Absolutely. Beef is ~7x as land- and GHG-intensive per gram of protein vs chicken (and pork).

Not bison though - they & other ruminant meats like lamb are similar to beef.

W chicken there’s an animal welfare tradeoff: way more animals killed, raised in worse conditions. Plants avoid that tradeoff.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a climate report that aims to cast doubt on the severity of climate change.

Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused.

“This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer.
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Since wolves’ return, Yellowstone’s aspens are recovering, study finds The researchers found a 152-fold increase in sapling and young-tree density.

More evidence that the world needs wolves 🌎

Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.

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What Is NEPA? Understanding the National Environmental Policy Act and Its Impact The Trump administration and Congress are whittling away at one of the nation's most important environmental laws

This National Environmental Policy Act is one of the best ways to ensure the public has a say in federal decisions. The law is now be erode from within as the Trump admin, Congress, and the Judiciary defang its most meaningful provisions.

A side profile image of a Mexican gray wolf running.

Another Mexican gray wolf has crossed Interstate 40 in NM, and the Center and our allies have asked that 'Taylor' not be recaptured by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Over the past several weeks he covered more than 150 miles to reach Mount Taylor again.

Read on ➡️ biodiv.us/4fahGEd

See what trail cams captured about Borderlands wildlife - High Country News Alongside stunning footage, scientists found that the border wall deters wildlife.

A new study shows that the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico is a significant barrier to wildlife movement. Researchers monitored animals along the border for two years capturing new data that shows how wildlife avoid border infrastructure.

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Noooo…

~25% of employees left this year with the Fork, early retirement, and/or the buyout. Refuges were underfunded before that happened, with annual funding around 25% what is needed.

Recall, refuges also help protect people & infrastructure by helping curb impacts of hurricanes and floods.

Opinion: What does Rep. Nick Begich have against Alaska marine mammals? Alaska’s congressman has proposed a truly heartless piece of legislation that would gut the remarkably successful Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Alaska's Rep. Nick Begich has proposed text that would drastically weaken the incredible Marine Mammal Protection Act. Cooper Freeman, the Center's Alaska director, explains why these changes would be terrible for Alaskans and the state's wildlife. 👇

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Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise. Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing on...

The people behind the idea of selling public lands off to private developers have no interests in affordable housing. They just don't believe land should be public and would rather it be sold to private corporations bc, you know, capitalism.

Fascinating piece on how wildlife is repairing what humans have torn asunder:

Just got my copy in the mail! 🤓

Inside Grist’s new toolkit for navigating disasters “The original audience for this was people who might experience disasters...that’s basically anybody these days.”

“The original audience for this was people who might experience disasters...that’s basically anybody these days.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/insi...

The House Natural Resources Committee is set to advance H.R. 281 and H.R. 556, two anti-science, anti-conservation bills that would allow for greatly expanded lead pollution on public lands, and remove federal protections from grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, respectively. 🧵 1/5

Logging in Ontario’s boreal forest unsustainable, study finds | The Narwhal Clear cutting in northeastern Ontario is depleting the forest, including old-growth and caribou habitat

A new study looking at logging practices in northeastern Ontario finds forests have been managed to get as much timber out as possible, rather than sustainably harvested — going against the province’s own guidelines. VIA @fatimabsyed.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-fore...

Infrastructure can be major barriers to all kinds of wildlife. It can lead to fragmented habitats that constrain wildlife movement. And, roads lead to vehicle-wildlife collisions that can kill or injure animals and motorists.

Thankfully, there are solutions: wildlife crossings like this one.

Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪

Action alert ⚠️: Alaska wildlife managers are proposing to shoot and kill bears from helicopters in a misguided effort to help declining caribou herds in western Alaska.

Tell the Alaska Board of Game to reject this plan to kill bears ➡️ biodiv.us/4nC0w6h

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Zohran Mamdani scares the architects and maintainers of inequality.

Should We Have Wolves or Livestock on Public Lands? In the American West, the vast majority of public lands are leased to ranchers to graze their livestock. The ranchers can’t seem to get along with any of

A timely reminder: Who really belongs on public lands — wolves or livestock?

Much of the American West is leased to ranchers who target native species like wolves for elimination. Wolves help ecosystems thrive.

The West doesn't need more cattle. It needs more wolves.
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Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3

Inside Utah’s PR campaign to seize public lands - High Country News Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.

Lawmakers in Utah are deploying every deception tactic in the book to convince Americans that turning federal lands over to states is in the nation's best interest. What they aren't saying is that they don't have the money to manage these lands, so they often get sold to for-profit companies.

Superstition, Politics, and Junk Science Threaten Mexican Wolves The ‘Great News’ about lobo recovery isn’t that great

"The push to motivate the feds and states to recover lobos instead of just maintaining some in the wild may become moot if the Republican-controlled Congress attaches to a successful bill a rider that removes federal protection from all wolves and nixes judicial review."

Trump Opens Up 59 Million Acres of National Forest to Logging The Trump administration plans to rescind a Clinton-era rule that blocked logging on nearly 60 million acres of national forest lands.

These trees are our heroes
Without them the floods in Texas would be much worse as they sequester a huge amount of carbon slowing global warming

No more say prayers from MAGA and Trump
when they are actively fueling devastating floods heat and droughts https//earth.org/t...

When I meet coyotes they usually turn back or cut off to the side but this one I encountered along the coast wanted to continue on its course so it kicked into high gear and bolted past me! Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge #Alaska 🦊

Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.

In a Milestone for Manhattan, a Pair of Coyotes Has Made Central Park Their Home For six years, two photographers have carefully followed the canines and documented their secret lives

A bonded pair of coyotes—nicknamed Romeo and Juliet—has made Central Park their home.

Their arrival signals a cleaner, healthier ecosystem and is a powerful reminder that even in the heart of Manhattan, wildlife finds a way to thrive.

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