Center for Biological Diversity
@biologicaldiversity
More than a million species could be lost to the Extinction Crisis in the coming decades. Learn about our work to save Earth's wildlife & wild places. www.biologicaldiversity.org
BREAKING: The Trump administration just announced an issuance of two rules that substantially weaken protections for imperiled species. It shouldn't be up to corporations to decide where imperiled species safely live.
Only about 2,000 #GrizzlyBears remain in the lower 48, and the Trump administration's proposed rule would make it easier for more to be killed. #Grizzlies already suffer from high mortality rates. Their populations can't afford more human-caused deaths. Please support our fight: bit.ly/4pru7R7
Just announced — Diamondback terrapins may warrant listing under the #ESA 🐢🐢 However, the habitat rule finalized July 10 by the Trump administration aims to remove nearly all habitat protections for #EndangeredSpecies. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4gGj58q
BREAKING NEWS: The Trump administration just announced a revised Endangered Species Act rule that would allow more killing of grizzly bears across the lower 48 states, where they're currently protected as an threatened species.
BREAKING: We just sued the Trump administration to protect wildlife. Last week, they stripped away #EndangeredSpecies protections for places where these species live by repealing their regulator definition of "harm" under the #ESA. This move was illegal. So we're taking them to court.
BREAKING: Trump just slashed #BearsEars and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments — again ⚠️🚨 This threatens our #PublicLands by paving the way for new exploitation by corporate polluters in some of our nation's most beloved natural and cultural landscapes. Take action ➡️ bit.ly/4ykvV2C
BREAKING: The Trump administration just finalized a rule today that removes nearly all habitat protections for endangered species. More details: biodiv.us/4gQ90WL
Every year, the US imports about 90 million animals to sell as pets — they're also a major exporter. In this episode of Sounds Wild, we chat with Center scientist Dianne Dubois about how the #wildlife pet trade trade is driving species declines around the world. 🎧 Listen at https://bit.ly/4bBQTA7
Our #PublicLands are at risk: Trump and his anti-environment agency appointees want to sell them off to private interests 🚨🚨 If you believe public land should be conserved instead of peddled to the highest bidder for private profit, stand with us and speak up now ➡️ biodiv.us/land
We just sued the Trump administration seeking records on a decision that would revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect whales, including critically #endangered North Atlantic right #whales, from deadly ship strikes. Only around 380 right whales remain.
Once abundant along the West Coast, sunflower sea star populations have tragically plummeted by a whopping 90% since 2013 due to a disease outbreak that is driven by #ClimateChange. So we sued the Trump admin. over the National Marine Fisheries Service’s failure to protect them under the #ESA 🌻🌟
It's bath time for these black #bears in the borderlands! Did you know? Our #borderlands to the south make up one of the biggest ecosystem complexes in North America. This is just a glimpse of the spectacular wildlife along our border that we work to protect. Learn more: bit.ly/4rVx8tB
Our #NationalParks are facing the most severe funding shortfalls in a generation. Meanwhile, this #4thOfJuly, Trump is throwing himself a lavish party and funneling millions in park entrance fees into vanity projects in D.C. It's time for Congress to step in ➡️ https://bit.ly/3SW6fcg #America250
#ICYMI: Trump's EPA just approved the use of three new "forever chemical" — aka PFAS — pesticides for use on food crops. These approvals come just days after the Supreme Court limited Americans' ability to sue pesticide companies for harms linked to pesticides. More details: biodiv.us/4azM7Ts
A massive logging project was just approved in Montana's Bitterroot #NationalForest — right in the heart of grizzly bear habitat. We're taking legal action to stop it, and we need your help. Please help support our fight to stop this destruction. All gifts will be matched! ➡️ bit.ly/4v21Kdx
This tragedy never should have happened. There's a proven, immediate solution to prevent this: Vessel speed limits. Add your voice to help make speed limits required where whales are likely to be. ➡️ biodiv.us/wcw
A rock quarry in Ventura county plans to expand minining operations — right into a critical connectivity area for the region's mountain lion populations. We're challenging this decision in court. Learn more: biodiv.us/4eByJRd
Whooo will speak up for endangered species? 🦉🦋 Anti-wildlife members of Congress recently slashed the #USFWS budget for protecting #EndangeredSpecies. But it's not too late! Congress slashed funding, and it can restore it. Message your representative and senators ➡️ bit.ly/4tbzrc6
BREAKING: #AlligatorAlcatraz is officially closed 🎉🎉🎉 We've reached a huge milestone in our fight against the mass detention center in the heart of the #Everglades: ICE announced it has removed all detainees from the cruelly named “Alligator Alcatraz,” and DeSantis confirmed it is closed.
Rice's whales are one of the rarest whales on Earth — only 51 remain. We're co-sponsoring a webinar to learn all about them on tomorrow, June 25th at 8 pm ET/ 5 pm PT. Learn more about these critically endangered whales and what you can do to help them. Sign up now: https://biodiv.us/3QM94fn
We joined 50+ groups & leaders today to urge U.S. grocery chains to only sell certified avocados to help curtail deforestation of Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Purchasing avocados from certified suppliers would protect monarch butterflies, local forests and communities in Michoacán.
Lead poses a serious poisoning threat to people, wildlife, and the environment — yet it is still allowed in hunting ammo and fishing tackle, including ammo used in many national wildlife refuges throughout the U.S. Tell the USFWS to keep lead out of wildlife refuges. ➡️ biodiv.us/lead
We sued the Trump Department of Agriculture seeking records revealing who advocated behind the scenes for — and potentially ghost-wrote — the president’s Feb. 18 executive order directing the department to accelerate domestic production of #glyphosate. More details: biodiv.us/4xGWcYF
The Senate's farm bill just dropped and it's not looking good. "Instead of helping Americans afford groceries or protecting clean air and drinking water, Congress is rewarding the nation’s most powerful polluters and the armies of lobbyists fighting for them," said the Center's J.W. Glass.
We just sued the Trump administration over the National Marine Fisheries Service’s failure to protect imperiled sunflower sea stars as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Learn more: biodiv.us/4aMHKV0
These majestic animals belong in the wild — not on walls. Yet sadly, elephant trophy trade is thriving under the second Trump administration. Please take a moment to sign our petition urging Interior Sec. Burgum to ban elephant trophy imports under the ESA now. ➡️ https://bit.ly/4w0UNdD
The Center and our allies are suing the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for violating the Endangered Species Act by approving a 135,000-acre logging project in the Bitterroot National Forest that will threaten grizzly bears, bull trout, wolverines and other imperiled animals.