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Remote camera image of a wolf pups taken during the summer of 2025. (Courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
Article July 7, 2026

Colorado’s Wolf Pups are Leading the Species’ Recovery. The Government Wants to Undermine It

Under pressure from anti-wolf groups, the Trump administration has opposed the wildly successful wolf reintroduction program.
Members of the Yurok Tribe fish for salmon in the Klamath River. (Martin do Nascimento / Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory June 23, 2026

U.S. Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Endangered Species

Pivotal ruling protects Klamath River’s recovering salmon runs
document June 17, 2026

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion: Yurok Tribe v. Klamath Water Users Association

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Yurok Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, and the Institute for Fisheries Resources in determining that the operations…
In the News: Courthouse News Service June 17, 2026

Ninth Circuit sides with Yurok Tribe over Klamath Irrigation Project

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “The Ninth Circuit today confirmed what has long been settled law — the Endangered Species Act fully protects threatened and endangered salmon in the Klamath River.”
A grizzly bear in a Montana forest. (Beth Hibschman / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory June 9, 2026

Judge Rules Bitterroot Road Building Plan Violates Endangered Species Act

Court orders additional briefing to determine remedy in the case
document June 9, 2026

Bitterroot Order

A District Court judge has partially ruled in favor of conservation groups in a lawsuit over the impacts of federal agencies’ plans to allow increased road building in the Bitterroot…
The 19 million acres of tundra, rivers and mountains of the Arctic Refuge shelter migratory birds from all 50 states and six continents each summer. To the Gwich'in people of northeast Alaska, this is sacred ground. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Update June 5, 2026

Big Oil Stays Away from the Arctic Refuge, But the Fight Isn’t Over

The Trump administration tried to sell off the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to Big Oil with a lease sale on June 5.
Polar bears on the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)
Press Release June 5, 2026

Lease Sale Seeks to Transform Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into a Fossil Fuel Industrial Zone

All major oil companies refused to bid; one small oil company and a state of Alaska-sponsored corporation snapped up five leases in a rush to exploit the Refuge’s Coastal Plain
The Flathead National Forest in Montana. (Your Forests Your Future / U.S. Forest Service)
Press Release June 5, 2026

Lawsuit: Admin Manufactured “Emergency” to Sidestep Endangered Species Requirements for Flathead Timber Project

West Reservoir project could harm ESA-listed grizzly bears and bull trout
document June 5, 2026

West Reservoir Complaint

Swan View Coalition and Friends of the Wild Swan sued the Trump administration over its attempt to rush through a timber project in Flathead National Forest grizzly bear and bull…
document June 5, 2026

Colorado Wolves Comment Letter

Conservation organizations submitted comments in response to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s request for information on the implementation of the Endangered Species Act 10(j) rule for gray wolves in…
Pygmy rabbits depend on large areas of mature sagebrush to protect them from predators and for the majority of their diet. (H. Ulmschneider / BLM and R. Dixon / Idaho Dept. of Fish & Game)
Press Release May 13, 2026

Conservation Groups Sue Trump Administration to Protect World’s Smallest Bunnies

Fish and Wildlife Service failed to make required listing determination for pygmy rabbit
A gray wolf walking in snow taken in Yellowstone National Park. (Stan Tekiela / Getty Images)
Article April 29, 2026

How Trump and Congress Are Attacking the Endangered Species Act – and What You Can Do

Extractive industries that have long despised the ESA now have powerful allies. We’re fighting back.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
(Hillebrand / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Press Release April 20, 2026

Trump Administration Offers Vast Tracts within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Big Oil Drilling

Today’s lease sale notice sets into motion this administration’s radical agenda to industrialize the Refuge to benefit oil companies – not the American people
Female panther at the Picayune Strand State Forest in Collier County.
(Tim Donovan / Florida Fish & Wildlife)
Update April 15, 2026

Court Upholds Protections for Florida’s Wetlands

The ruling ensures protections for vulnerable species like the critically endangered Florida panther.
In the News: Orlando Sentinel April 4, 2026

Environmental groups sue over drilling carve-out for Gulf wildlife protections

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, and Oceans: “Extinction is forever.”
A wolf at Yellowstone National Park. (Jacob W. Frank / National Park Service)
Update April 2, 2026

We Won Back Endangered Species Act Protections the First Trump Admin Attacked

The ruling derails the current administration’s efforts to further undermine the landmark conservation law.