The California spotted owl is the last of four native Sierra Nevada species to receive Endangered Species Act protection in the culmination of a 30-year legal fight.

The web of life is in danger of collapsing, due in large part to climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction caused by the fossil fuel industry. We’re working to protect species from these threats.

“Science-based decision making is the core of the Endangered Species Act and has been essential to bringing numerous species back from the brink of extinction.”

Elena Bryant, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Regional Office, Earthjustice: “The type of legacy project KIUC and AES are proposing is exactly the type of action that should be subject to full environmental review through the preparation of an EIS.”

With only about 50 Gulf of Mexico whales remaining, they are at critical risk if oil companies ramp up seismic oil exploration.

Officials must assess fishing effects on dwindling Pacific species

Earthjustice filed suit on behalf of the Conservation Council for Hawai‘i and native Hawaiian cultural practitioner Mike Nakachi to protect a host of threatened and endangered Pacific ocean species from continuing harm.

Agreement leads federal agency to implement some safeguards

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of logging and climate change, among other threats.

There are many reasons that people connect with biodiversity. Here are mine.

Landmark law continues to save wildlife from extinction

The decision is an important step in preserving Bristol Bay and its residents’ way of life.

EPA decision protects Bristol Bay waters from becoming a dumping ground for mine waste; effectively rebuffing the threat of Pebble Mine

An open-pit mine threatened one of the last places on Earth where wild salmon still thrive. We will protect Bristol Bay, one of our world's surviving great ecosystems.

Big Hole River needs curbs to irrigation withdrawals for grayling to survive

Conservationists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking protections for Montana’s Arctic grayling population under the Endangered Species Act. The parties — the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project and Butte resident Pat Munday — are represented by Earthjustice.

The America the Beautiful for All Coalition has put together key policy recommendations on how to make headway on the goal to preserve 30% of lands and waters as biodiversity crisis looms.

Chris Eaton, Attorney, Oceans Program: “These agencies are basically pretending that another catastrophic oil spill cannot possibly occur, cannot possibly be a risk for the Gulf of Mexico. And we know that that risk is real, and they need to be paying attention to that.”