WildEarth Guardians
@wildearthguardians
We protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. Join us!
Join us August 13 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm MDT for “Wolves: The Mything Link,” a conversation with award-winning writers Dan Flores and Betsy Gaines Quammen. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A session where we’ll address your questions and insights. Sign up ➡️ https://loom.ly/Xt0u1xw
We're fighting back against Trump's rollbacks of the Endangered Species Act. More ➡️ https://wildearthguardians.org/press-releases/conservation-groups-plan-to-sue-trump-over-attempts-to-eliminate-protections-for-threatened-species-favor-corporate-interests-instead-of-science/
Today, the Trump administration released a finalized ESA rule drastically reducing USFWS's discretion overcritical habitat for imperiled wildlife. The new rule sidelines science to grant industry interests unprecedented leverage in decisions regarding species protections. https://loom.ly/_rlCcs0
🚨 BREAKING: Montana just admitted it has been overestimating its wolf population for years, while still proposing to kill more than 1/3 of the state's wolves. Montana is determined to manage wolves for the bare minimum instead of treating this beloved species with respect. https://loom.ly/eCx1KqE
🐻 The Trump admin and northern Rockies’ governors continue their assault on grizzly bears. The proposed rule puts politics over science in a push to allow anti-wildlife states to kill more grizzly bears with less oversight. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/a1QRZEo
The Q2 numbers are in 📈 According to new analysis of industry-reported state data released this week by WildEarth Guardians, fracking waste ("produced water") spill volumes doubled in New Mexico in Q2 2026. Read the analysis ➡️ https://loom.ly/gt0tajY
Alongside our partners in conservation, we are urging New Mexico leadership to strengthen protections for lobos. The recent deaths of the Sawtooth Pack wolves must be condemned and we must adopt a new paradigm where wolves are valued as our neighbor and a relative. https://loom.ly/tEf9Gv4
✅ [Lawsuit Filed] We're going to court to protect America’s wildlife and from the Trump Administration. If we fail to protect habitat, we fail to protect wildlife. We can't afford to fail. #EndangeredSpeciesAct #StopExtinction https://loom.ly/lT_7unQ
BLM is proposing big changes to its regs governing livestock use on more than 155 million acres of public lands in the West. The regs would eliminate your ability to participate in agency decision-making and seriously jeopardize wildlife habitat & public resources. ACT NOW ➡️ https://loom.ly/NAf8Fxk
[LEGAL ACTION] We filed a notice of intent to sue USFS over #ESA violations related to increases in logging on the Santa Fe National Forest. Logging and burning the forest is not going to protect people from wildfire, but it will harm crucial fish and wildlife habitat. https://loom.ly/mWM1wC4
Remember Catron County's "wolf houses"? A resident who helped build them says he doesn't think they were necessary. Between the recent illegal lobo poaching & the county losing a lawsuit claiming they have too many elk, one wonders if the county's leaders just hate wildlife. https://loom.ly/p_DcsXg
Join Western Watersheds Project and WildEarth Guardians for a free webinar to learn what's in the proposal, what's at stake, and how you can participate in the public comment process. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/grazingregs
Trapping is beyond inhumane and impossibly cruel. USFWS investigated the deaths of 2 federally protected Mexican wolves – a 5yo father and a yearling son from the Sawtooth Pack – who were caught in private traps on private land in two separate incidents in spring 2025. https://loom.ly/mewRGvo
This is what a Roadless Area looks like: alive, wild, biodiverse, beautiful. 📸: Ryan Talbott, Washington's Dark Divide Roadless Area on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest
A big win for grizzly bears! Today, a District Court affirmed what we all know – roads are bad for grizzly bears and they need large areas of intact habitat if they are ever to reoccupy the Bitterroot Mountains, More ➡️ https://loom.ly/ky0KISc
USDA's Wildlife Services reported killing 2,626 coyotes statewide in New Mexico in 2024 alone. While the reporting does not reveal how many predators were killed in protected Wilderness, the scale of the federal predator control program is undeniably appalling ➡️ https://loom.ly/IUhVcXA
Yesterday, we filed a lawsuit targeting Wildlife Services, a federal program that authorizes federally-subsidized “predator control” across millions of acres of public lands at the behest of the private livestock industry, including within designated Wilderness Areas ➡️ https://loom.ly/FgfA-R0
[Lawsuit Filed ✅] Today, we filed a lawsuit targeting USDA's nationwide wildlife killing program Wildlife Services. “This case is about whether Wilderness can actually be wild,” said Jennifer Schwartz, senior staff attorney with WildEarth Guardians. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/FgfA-R0
Today we show up in support of the Roadless Rule, which protects 1.6 million acres in New Mexico. Show your support by posting your own photo today for #HikeRideRunforRoadless.
It's official: The Senate voted to confirm Stevan Pearce as BLM Director. Given Trump’s “energy dominance” orders and ongoing efforts from members of Congress to sell-off public lands across the West, every proposal and action from Pearce’s BLM should be scrutinized. https://loom.ly/dPp-qj8
Here in New Mexico, we repeatedly pledge, el agua es vida, water is life. Add beavers, and water is potent, dynamic abundance. For inspiring words on biodiversity and hopeful abundance, read the latest blog from New Mexico Conservation Lead Leia Barnett ➡️ https://loom.ly/2y3kvA8
This month, Guardians filed lawsuits against three federal agencies for systematically failing to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and withholding basic public records tied to logging projects, livestock grazing, and management of protected wildlife. https://loom.ly/BbJaXrs
The Roadless Rule protects 1.6m acres of wild New Mexico. But it's under attack & we're fighting back. Get outside the weekend of May 22 & take a photo doing what you love – hiking, riding, running, fishing, birding, recreating. Then post it on May 26 with the hashtag #HikeRideRunforRoadless.
The #EndangeredSpeciesAct is our nation’s most powerful environmental law protecting wildlife. More than 85 percent of Americans support a strong Endangered Species Act. Let’s work together to prevent the extinction of even a single species of native wildlife on our watch. #EndangeredSpeciesDay
See you all in ONE HOUR! Register: https://loom.ly/IRip92I
The attempted destruction of the Roadless Rule is yet another one of the Trump administration’s attacks on wildlife and public lands. We're fighting back. Sign our petition ➡️ https://loom.ly/1d9l_wo
Melissa Troutman, Guardians’ Climate and Health Advocate has been waiting her entire career for just one oil and gas company to come clean and tell the truth. Our latest blog tells Melissa's story ➡️ https://loom.ly/cVzMMYI
Today, the White House released a proposed rule that would overhaul BLM’s grazing regs, advancing a controversial effort that would weaken government oversight on 155 million acres of public land across the West. The proposed regs will simply make ranchers LESS accountable. https://loom.ly/Dg3tjUg
Thank you to all who came out for an incredible conservation conversation in Missoula this week! It was so great to get the Missoula community together and learn from one another about how to keep up the fight for public lands, clean water, climate, wildlife, and our future! #AForceForNature
We're currently gearing up to fight the next battle in the century-long struggle to protect our wildest public lands. For the sake of wildlife, wildfire, & old-growth forests, we must - and we will - defend the #RoadlessRule. Also - don't miss our webinar on May 13 ➡️ https://loom.ly/IRip92I