Yellowstone grizzlies: Court blocks ID, WY trophy hunts

Aug 30, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears

MISSOULA, Mont. —Today, a U.S. District Court judge granted wildlife advocates’ motion for a temporary restraining order to block planned grizzly bear trophy hunts in Idaho and Wyoming for at least 14 days. This came after a hearing regarding a high-profile case...

Court rejects flawed Mexican wolf management rule: Capping population, killing more wolves, cutting off habitat undermines recovery

Apr 3, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

TUCSON—Today, a judge ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) to go back to the drawing board on its deeply flawed 2015 Mexican wolf management rule. The court rejected the Service’s distortion of science to fit the political goals of...

Wolf advocates sue: ‘Recovery plan’ sets Mexican wolves on road to extinction

Jan 30, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Tucson, AZ —Today Southwestern wolf advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in court over its 2017 Mexican wolf recovery plan, which violates the Endangered Species Act, excludes the best available science, and imposes an arbitrary population cap...

Protecting Oregon’s beavers and salmon from Wildlife Services

Dec 14, 2017 | Wildlife

Protecting Oregon’s beavers–and salmon–from Wildlife Services It may sound strange, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services regularly kills Oregon’s official state animal–beavers—with traps, snares, and firearms. In Oregon, beavers on...

Feds Stop Using Cruel Tools to Kill Colorado Wildlife 

Nov 6, 2017 | Colorado Wildlife Services Challenge, News Release

Denver, CO— Today, in response to a lawsuit challenging its activities in Colorado, Wildlife Services, the federal wildlife killing program, agreed to complete a new environmental analysis and end the use of many of its most controversial killing tools in the interim....

Battle begins to restore protections for Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears

Aug 30, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears

MISSOULA, Mont. —Today, WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, challenging the agency’s flawed rule stripping grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Endangered Species Act protections. The Service’s premature removal of crucial...

Court upholds agreement protecting imperiled lynx from trapping

Aug 7, 2017 | News Release, Victory! Montana Lynx Trapping Challenge

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the Montana Trappers Association’s appeal of a settlement agreement between Friends of the Wild Swan, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, WildEarth Guardians, and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks that protects lynx from being...

Fight begins to maintain protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears

Jun 30, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears

Conservationists Signal Impending Legal Challenge Over Removal of Federal Safeguards Today, WildEarth Guardians notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service it will sue the agency over its flawed decision to strip grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of...

Protecting Native Steelhead in the North and South Santiam Rivers

Jun 27, 2017 | Wildlife

Protecting Native Steelhead in the North and South Santiam Rivers In 1999, the National Marine Fisheries Service listed native winter steelhead trout in the upper Willamette River basin in Oregon as threatened with extinction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pays for...

Protecting Amphibians in the Sierra Nevada

Jun 27, 2017 | Wildlife

Protecting Amphibian Critical Habitat in the Sierra Nevada High elevation meadows and streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains provide important habitat for the Yosemite toad and Sierra Nevada mountain yellow-legged frog, both of which are threatened with extinction....