Pres. Biden cancels oil leasing where caribou and polar bears roam
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Wildlife & wild places
Can you imagine a world filled with more wildlife and wild places? So can we. And we’re working together to make it happen.
Every minute, we’re losing two football fields worth of wild lands, and too many animal species face extinction. It’s up to us to turn things around. We imagine an America with more mountaintops where all we see is forests below, with more rivers that flow wild and free, more shoreline where all we hear are waves. An America with abundant wildlife, from butterflies and bees floating lazily in your backyard, to the howl of a coyote in the distance, to the breach of a whale just visible from the shore. Together, we can work toward this better future.
Every minute, we’re losing two football fields worth of wild lands, and too many animal species face extinction. It’s up to us to turn things around. We imagine an America with more mountaintops where all we see is forests below, with more rivers that flow wild and free, more shoreline where all we hear are waves. An America with abundant wildlife, from butterflies and bees floating lazily in your backyard, to the howl of a coyote in the distance, to the breach of a whale just visible from the shore. Together, we can work toward this better future.
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Good news for wildlife! Biden administration launches new wildlife crossing program
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Three special places, three victories for nature
The Tongass, the Boundary Waters and Bristol Bay are living testaments to the wisdom of conservation — and now, they enjoy greater protections.
Controversial mine could threaten iconic Okefenokee Swamp
Clean waters are are crucial to the lives of countless species that call the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge home — but a proposed titanium mine could threaten this wild place.
Climate action is not enough
Even if humanity solved global warming, we’d still have a problem.