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Are You Noticing It Too? Fireflies Are Fading From Our Summer Nights

For generations, fireflies have turned ordinary summer evenings into something magical. Their tiny flashes drift through backyards, fields, forests, and wetlands, creating a natural wonder cherished around the world. For many of us, they are woven into childhood memories, symbols of warm nights, healthy landscapes, and the simple joy of being outside after sunset.

But today, that familiar glow is under threat.

August 5, 2026 No Comments

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Fitzpatrick, Quigley Lead Bipartisan Effort to Stop Sweeping Rollback of Endangered Species Protections

The Safeguarding Endangered Species Act would overturn the Administration’s rule eliminating longstanding protections against habitat destruction that kills or injures imperiled wildlife.

July 24, 2026 No Comments

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Funding Challenges for Endangered Species Recovery

Our federal lands and wildlife belong to us. Our public tax dollars should be going towards our shared natural resources and ensuring their protection for generations to come. However, the Trump administration’s proposed 2027 federal budget fails our wildlife and us by cutting endangered species program funding by 22%.

July 14, 2026 No Comments

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100+ Civil Rights, Racial Justice, Labor, and Grassroots Groups Demand Trump Be Immediately Removed from Office, Co-Conspirators Held Accountable

Following the insurrection by armed white vigilantes against the U.S. Capitol on Treason Day (January 6th, 2020) encouraged by Donald

January 8, 2021 No Comments

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Trafficked: 10 Species Threatened by the Wildlife Trade

New Report Calls for End to Wildlife Trafficking, Unsustainable Trade of Plants, Wildlife Washington, DC – Wildlife and plant

December 18, 2020 No Comments

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Protecting pollinators and monarchs made more urgent by Trump Admin inaction

The Trump Administration announced this week that Monarch butterfly protections under the Endangered Species Act are warranted but precluded. This

December 16, 2020 No Comments

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Trump Administration Finalizes New Rule That Weakens the Endangered Species Act

New rule paves way for extractive industries to destroy habitat of imperiled species Washington, D.C.– Tomorrow the Trump administration is

December 16, 2020 No Comments

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Historic Voter Turnout — Endangered Species Coalition and Native Plant Conservation Campaign Thank Member Groups, Volunteers

Washington, DC — As the final ballots are tabulated across the U.S., the Endangered Species Coalition and Native Plant Conservation

November 7, 2020 No Comments

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Sens. Cornyn and Booker Bill Addresses Wildlife Trade and Prevent Pandemics

Washington, D.C. – COVID-19 is causing massive disruption and heartbreak across America. Millions have become ill and hundreds of thousands

November 3, 2020 No Comments

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Gray Wolf Stripped of Federal Protections

Fish and Wildlife Service removes the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act, halting wolf recovery WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today the

November 3, 2020 No Comments

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Idaho Documents Reveal Weeks-old Wolf Pups Among 570 Maimed, Slaughtered Wolves

BOISE, Ida. – As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that the removal of wolves from Endangered Species

September 11, 2020 No Comments

The conclusion remains: the Lower Snake River Dams have to be breached.

This is a guest post from Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, (NPtE) President, Elliott L. Moffett

I am the President of Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment (NPtE). I along with Julian Matthews are the co-founders of NPtE. We got our start principally during the rolling blockade of Megaloads traversing the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in North Central Idaho. Megaloads are pieces of equipment too large for ordinary traffic and must receive special attention to travel over highways because of their size. Tribal members, members of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee (NPTEC), and the public objected to the megaloads going to Canada to the tar sands, and we objected to the callousness of the owners and transport company who subject dangerous extractive industries onto vulnerable communities, and we objected to the lack of consultation when the Reservation Community may have been impacted and the impact to the environment. The Reservation Community wants environmentally sound practices as more fitting of Community values. Read more…

September 3, 2020 No Comments

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The Blog

The Latest from the Endangered Species Coalition

Are You Noticing It Too? Fireflies Are Fading From Our Summer Nights

Fitzpatrick, Quigley Lead Bipartisan Effort to Stop Sweeping Rollback of Endangered Species Protections

Funding Challenges for Endangered Species Recovery

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100+ Civil Rights, Racial Justice, Labor, and Grassroots Groups Demand Trump Be Immediately Removed from Office, Co-Conspirators Held Accountable

Trafficked: 10 Species Threatened by the Wildlife Trade

Protecting pollinators and monarchs made more urgent by Trump Admin inaction

Trump Administration Finalizes New Rule That Weakens the Endangered Species Act

Historic Voter Turnout — Endangered Species Coalition and Native Plant Conservation Campaign Thank Member Groups, Volunteers

Sens. Cornyn and Booker Bill Addresses Wildlife Trade and Prevent Pandemics

Gray Wolf Stripped of Federal Protections

Idaho Documents Reveal Weeks-old Wolf Pups Among 570 Maimed, Slaughtered Wolves

The conclusion remains: the Lower Snake River Dams have to be breached.

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