Wolverines are among the fiercest creatures on the planet, yet even they are fighting to survive in a warming world.

Conservation groups act to save imperiled species

Earthjustice is once again fighting to protect the wolverine, a tough-as-nails creature that’s nevertheless extremely vulnerable to climate change and development.

Denial of Endangered Species Act protections ignored risks from climate change, habitat fragmentation

Climate change and genetic isolation threaten famously tough predator

With fewer than 300 wolverines left in the contiguous United States, there is no justification for the FWS’ decision to deny protection

(This is the fourth in a series of Q & A’s on the Crown of the Continent, a 10-million-acre expanse of land in northern Montana and southern Canada. Earthjustice is currently working to protect several wild creatures in the Crown like the wolverine. To learn more about this wild place and how Earthjustice is working…

Settlement orders U.S. Fish & Wildlife to act following four years delay

Groups file intent to sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Climate change has led to loss of spring snowpack, endangering feisty predator

Conservationists promise legal action to protect rare species

As a candidate species, the wolverine will be afforded certain protections under the Endangered Species Act

Managing Attorney Tim Preso isn’t likely to square off against a grizzly bear—as wolverines do—but he’s figured out how to use the persistence and determination of a wolverine to keep it from going extinct in the continental United States.

Court overturns government refusal to consider threats to rare wilderness species

A new report documents how people have been left in harm’s way, as the Trump administration attempts to block the Chemical Disaster Rule.

Fish and Wildlife Service defies scientific evidence in refusing to list the species

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Threats found to be of “high magnitude,” yet species still awaits ESA listing