Center for Biological Diversity

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SUED. 🚨 This is what happens when a trillionaire-owned company starts treating public land like its own testing grounds. 📍 @uriel.cinema is taking you straight to the frontlines in Brownsville, T.

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The last few weeks at the Center brought more updates from the border wall fight and continued action to defend the Everglades.   There was good news too: California steelhead protections surviv

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More information on the closure of the detention center in the Everglades: "Finally it looks like ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is meeting its end,” said the Center’s Elise Bennett. “But the Trump and DeSa...

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to transfer 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX. This refuge provides critical habitat for endangered ocelots, rar...

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BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X. Americans shouldn't be sacrificing ou

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Every species deserves a future. 🌎 The extinction crisis is accelerating, threatening wildlife and the habitats they depend on to survive. From sea turtles and wolves to pollinators and ancient for..

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Wildlife-killing M-44 "cyanide bombs" are back. M-44s are spring-loaded metal cylinders covered in a sweet-smelling scent to lure foxes, coyotes, birds and other wildlife. It just takes a little t...

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You know it's been a busy week when the update includes lawsuits over horseshoe crabs, coral reefs, cancer-linked pesticides, and air pollution in the Everglades. Every week, the Center is in cour...

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The Center’s Laiken Jordahl joined NPR’s Studio 1A today to discuss the looming threat of a border wall through Big Bend National Park, where DHS just issued the largest wall construction contract ...

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Ancient trees in Alaska’s Tongass rainforest could soon be destroyed by federal logging plans. The U.S. Forest Service wants to revive a massive timber sale that would clear-cut nearly 1,655 acre...

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Florida panthers are being boxed in. With likely fewer than 200 remaining in the wild, they are confined to shrinking pockets of habitat in southwest Florida, cut off by development and forced into...

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Another week of environmental fights and legal battles here at the Center. From the Trump administration approving continued use of atrazine and reviving cyanide “bombs” on public lands, to new bo...

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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game says killing bears will save the struggling Mulchatna caribou herd. But scientists and conservation groups, including the Center for Biological Diversi...

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Bad news: An Alaska Superior Court just ruled that the state can continue its Mulchatna bear control program and kill an unlimited number of black and brown bears across roughly 40,000 square miles...

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Every species deserves a future. Today is Endangered Species Day, but for us the fight to save wildlife happens every day. From sea turtles to wolves, pollinators to ancient forests, the extin...

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To us, every day is Endangered Species Day. The extinction crisis looms over our planet, threatening everything from whales in our oceans to wildflowers in the desert, wolves in the mountains, an...

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A remote Center camera in the Sky Islands of southern Arizona captured new video, released this week, of a rare jaguar moving through the area in March and April — along with a bear, a mountain lio...

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Alaska just confirmed its plan to kill every bear it can find across 40,000 square miles. Game agents will shoot bears from helicopters, with no limit on how many can be killed. This includes...

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Florida panthers are being boxed in. With likely fewer than 200 remaining in the wild, they are confined to shrinking pockets of habitat in southwest Florida, cut off by development and forced into...

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