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Half of all species may face extinction by the end of this century.

We can save them.

Earthjustice protects ecosystems against anyone who might hurt them. We’re a nonprofit in the business of building a better future for all.

We’re here because the earth needs a good lawyer.

Half of all species may face extinction by the end of this century.

We can save them.

Earthjustice protects ecosystems against anyone who might hurt them.

100+

Species Earthjustice has worked on behalf of to save from extinction

The Endangered Species Act is one of our nation's most powerful and visionary laws

A Florida panther at White Oak Conservation Center, Florida.
Frans Lanting / National Geographic
A wolf runs through the snow.
Ibrahim Suha Derbent / Getty Images
Spotted owl.
Galen Rowell / Getty Images / Corbis Documentary
California sea otter dines on crab.
Jean Edouard Rozey / Shutterstock
A wolverine moves through the shadows of subalpine fir lit by alpenglow, in the Northern Rockies.
Steven Gnam
One bowhead whale was found to be 211 years old.
Amelia Brower / NOAA
The palila lives exclusively between the elevations of 7,000 and 10,000 feet on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.
Aaron Maizlish / CC BY-NC 2.0
Small mouth grunts swim past elkhorn coral.
Ethan Daniels / Shutterstock
KA small blade of grass in the corner of her mouth, this young grizzly takes a break from grazing to survey the meadow along Pilgrim Creek.
Thomas D. Mangelsen
Orcas, in Puget Sound.
tiflotter / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
A sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in Little Redfish Lake Creek, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho.
Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP
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Environmental Lawyers

Earthjustice is the legal backbone of the environmental movement

Angela Johnson Meszaros, Managing Attorney, Community Partnerships Program.
Jessica Chou for Earthjustice
Jenny Harbine, Staff Attorney, Northern Rockies Regional Office.
Eric Ian for Earthjustice
Matt Vespa, Staff Attorney, Clean Energy Program.
Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice
Kylie Wager Cruz, Staff Attorney, Mid-Pacific Regional Office.
Ray Wan / Earthjustice
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Clients

Community organizations, Indigenous groups, Tribes, national nonprofits, and more.

We represent all our clients free of charge in their fight for clean air, clean water, and protections for wilderness and wildlife.

1971

Founding year

Challenging those who put profits and power before people and our planet for five decades.

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Planet Earth

There’s still time to stop one million of the planet’s plants and animals from vanishing forever. We can use the power of the law to save them. Here’s how.

This is the fight of all our lives. And this fight needs you.

Save the quiet for the wilderness.
In the public arena, we roar.

As officials hear from Earthjustice attorneys in court, outside the courtroom, they’re hearing from you.

Your voice can make a difference in these important actions:

“At this point in time, the only entities enforcing the Endangered Species Act are concerned members of the public, represented by groups such as Earthjustice, which provides legal services at no cost. Otherwise, the Act would not be enforced.”
– Tim PresoManaging Attorney, Northern Rockies office.
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