What Does International Polar Bear Day Mean for Bears’ Future?
Today (February 27) is International Polar Bear Day. This year’s observance of the day is especially significant as polar bears
February 22, 2017
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Environment
Endangered Species Act
Unknown Tourism: Commemorating the Wildlife We’ve Lost
In a series of vintage-style travel posters, Expedia UK illustrates places you can travel to today, but species that
December 6, 2016
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Environment
Mexico: Say NO to Copper Mining in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
While the U.S. channels millions of dollars into research, citizen science outreach, and public education on the importance of the Monarch butterfly migration, Mexico is considering the approval of permits that would allow its largest mining company with the country’s worst environmental record to reopen a copper mine in the heart of the Monarchs’ ancestral roosting sites.
October 5, 2016
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Endangered Species Act
The War against Poaching In 2016
This is a guest post from Jack Smith. Poaching has been around almost as long as people have been hungry,
September 6, 2016
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Endangered Species Act
Mexican Gray Wolves Need More Help
This is a guest post from animal activist and advocate Barbara Troeger. Mexican gray wolf recovery The Mexican gray wolf
August 25, 2016
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Endangered Species Act
If lead ammunition is bad for people and the environment, why do we still use it?
Concerns about regulation, skepticism about the science and misperceptions about costs are slowing the transition to nontoxic alternatives.
July 8, 2016
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Endangered Species Act
Winners Announced in 2016 Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest!
After a very difficult selection process, the judges arrived at 40 semi-finalists, 4 grade category winners, and a grand prize winner.
May 6, 2016
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Endangered Species Act
Committee Votes to Object to Bobcat Hunting in New Hampshire
With thanks to months of activism, earlier this month the New Hampshire Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules voted to object to the reopening proposal on a trapping and hunting season on bobcats!
April 8, 2016
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Congress
Anti-Science Wolf Delisting Bill Passes House of Representatives
The House of Representatives recently passed the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 2406), and in doing so
March 2, 2016
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Uncategorized
Transcending the Big Bad Wolf
In the history of western civilization, no animal has been as systematically vilified as the wolf. Neither spider nor snake, bat nor rat, nor shark of any kind, can make this claim.
January 19, 2016
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