From: Alliance for the Great Lakes Help us reach 5,000 signatures. Add your name to this petition. Dear President Obama: Asian carp threaten the Great Lakes ecosystem, the $7 billion Great Lakes sport and commercial fishing industry, and the recreational activities of countless residents and tourists. Failure to stop Asian carp from invading the Great [...]

From: National Wildlife Federation: Sea turtles have been through enough during the BP oil spill. Now to make matters worse, this week Congress will be voting on a bill that could result in the destruction of critical sea turtle habitats in Florida, as well as other sensitive wildlife habitat areas throughout the country. Tell your [...]

Wildlife experts are keeping a close eye on sharply declining bat populations around the state this summer to evaluate the number of animals killed by mysterious illness.

After nearly a decade of neglect by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, this month California’s Serengeti — the Carrizo Plain National Monument — earned a 10- to 15-year plan to help the feds and their partners manage lands and wildlife. Unfortunately for those lands and wildlife, the plan fails miserably at protections from destructive [...]

In a potentially catastrophic move for Arizona and New Mexico’s Sky Island ecosystem, the U.S. Forest Service has proposed a draft land-management plan for the Coronado National Forest that includes sweeping rollbacks for wildlife protection. Not only would the 15-year plan do away with requirements to maintain healthy wildlife populations on the forest — it [...]

Due to a scientific petition by groups including the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the northern Rocky Mountains’ rarest predators — if not the rarest predator in the region — has passed the first milestone on the path toward protection. Last Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Rockies population of [...]

Frogs and salamanders are disappearing. Two hundred species of amphibians have gone extinct in the past 30 years, and one-third of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction — while the federal government stands idly by. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is still refusing to protect 12 U.S. amphibian species declared [...]

Tomorrow, in Washington, D.C., an unprecedented network of more than 500 organizations — with the Center for Biological Diversity among those at the forefront — will send a letter to President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama opposing military development in habitat for the endangered Okinawa dugong. The Network for Okinawa’s letter demands [...]

State environmental officials are reviewing a program that protects endangered and threatened wildlife around the state. Environmentalists are concerned that changes could undercut protections.

Sandpiper: Pectoral Sandpiper, originally uploaded by ReinhardG. It may come as a surprise, but American birds are in serious decline. In March of last year, US Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced that one-in-three American birds are endangered. Even once common birds are showing precipitous declines. Birds face a barrage of threats, which are [...]