BREAKING: Trump Administration Guts Endangered Species Habitat Protections

Before you defend the SpaceX land swap, watch this

Protecting 715 acres of refuge land from SpaceX

June 27, 2026

Uriel Takes us to Front Lines of SpaceX Land Grab

More info on the closure of Alligator Allcatraz

What happened in the last few weeks?

Stop SpaceX's Land Grab

We are suing to protect 715 acres of Texas Wildlife Refuge Land from SpaceX

Support The Center for Biological Diversity

Suing to Stop the SpaceX Land Grab

Protecting the Río Grande

That's Wild: Bruce the Brave

Protecting Big Bend National Park

Protecting Big Bend National Park

The Center is back in court to ensure Alligator Alcatraz is shut down for good.

What happened this week??

Help Us Ban M-44 Cyanide Bombs... Again

The Center’s Laiken joined NPR’s Studio 1A today.

A Week at the Center

Protecting Florida Panthers from Exurban Development

Take Action to Protect the Tongass National Forest

Urgent Development: Alaska Bears

Why is Alaska going to kill bears across 40,000 square miles?

The Center for Saving Life on Earth

Give to the Org that's Fighting for Endangered Species Everyday

A Cameo by ‘Cinco’ the Jaguar

Save Alaska Bears from Aerial Gunning

Saving Florida Panthers

A reminder of why the Endangered Species Act is so important #wildlife

Protect Redwoods from Highway Expansion

Center for Biological Diversity Weekly News Roundup 10/10/2026

Alligator Alcatraz Updates Live with The Center's Florida and Caribbean Director, Elise Bennett.

Brown Bears in the Tongass National Forest

Stop the Trump Administration's Border Wall through Big Bend National Park

Trump's Border Wall in Big Bend National Park Must Be Stopped

The Center is under attack AGAIN.

Protect the Arctic from Gas and Oil Drillin

Remove Political Figures from National Park Passes

Bug Splats Reveal Insect Declines

The Buzz on Western Bumblebees

Get Up to Speed on the Extinction Crisis

Dangerous Waters for North Atlantic Right Whales

Vanishing Birds of North America

Help us defend Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

Help us defend Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

That's Wild: Tiny Cat Seen in Thailand After 30 Years

Fighting for Gray Wolves

Thank You for Standing With Us in 2025

You are Giving Hope to an Entire Species

You Raised $2,000,000 for Red Wolves!

Shirleen's Epic Ocean Journey

Border Wall Blasts

Help us fight this unlawful investigation against the Center

Alaska in Focus: Standing up for North America's Wildest Ecosystems

We Just Sued to Protect Alaska's Bears

On the Brink: American Burying Beetle Recovery Efforts

Saving the Everglades: The Fight to Come

Protect Endangered Baby Sea Turtles

Up close and personal with an ocelot

Stop the Everglades Ice Detention Center

Fighting to Ban Atrazine

Kierán Suckling: The Endangered Species Act

Protecting Montana Wolves

Saving the Gulf from Oil Spills

Resisting the Loss of the "Roadless Rule"

Save our Public Lands

Protect Alaska Bears from Aerial Gunning

Protect the Tongass

The Return of West Coast Wolves

Fighting Deadly Air Pollution

Protecting Florida's Black Bears

Watch California Mountain Lions Kittens Play

That's Wild: The Hannibal Lecter of Larvae

Watch These Adorable Kit Fox Kits

That's Wild: Colossal Kid Squid

Hands Off! 2025: Millions Protest Trump, Musk

Best Practices in Plant-Based City Food Policy

Saving our National Forests

Protecting the Wild from DOGE

Protecting the Wild from the Trump Administration

No One Wants This

Data Visualization: Florida Panther Car Mortality

Protecting the Arctic

Protecting the Wild from the Trump Administration

Protecting the Permian Basin

Protecting the Grand Canyon

Protecting the Wolf

Joining an Organization You Can Trust to Protect the Wild

Saving the Monarch Butterfly

Protecting Redwoods from Highway Expansion

Saving Red Wolves

Saving Bearing Sea Orcas

Wildlife Crossings for Red Wolves

Saving Endangered Red Wolves

Saving Wildlife from Extinction

Thank you for standing with us in 2024.

Eastern Indigo Snake Slithering Through the Pines

San Pedro River wildlife

That's Wild: Marmoset Names

Bottom Trawling Devastating Arctic Seas

Ocelot Spotted in New Arizona Location

If You Love Elephants

Defending New Mexico From Oil and Gas

Only 25 Redwolves Left in the Wild! #conservationmatters

We Protect the Endangered Species that Need Help. #savingspecies

Year of last grizzly sighting in California by county

Help Vanishing Wetlands and Their Wildlife

Meet The Center for Biological Diversity

Jean Su MSNBC Interview on FEMA Extreme Heat Petition

How Ancient Horseshoe Crabs First Enter the World

Argentinian Scientist Tours U.S. Jaguar Habitat

Save the Okefenokee

Tohono O'odham Students Name Arizona's New Jaguar

That's Wild: Meet the Kowari

That's Wild: Bedazzled Skunk Scat?

Saving Wilson's Phalaropes

Border Wall Saguaro Deaths

That's Wild: Wormlike Amphibians Who Lactate?

Webinar: Our Fight to Stop California Sprawl

Oak Flat from above

Power transmission lines damaging sacred sites and San Pedro River

Power transmission lines damaging sacred sites and San Pedro River

Fighting for Horseshoe Crab Mass Beach Orgies

That's Wild: Why Flying Froglets Impersonate Poop

Thanks for standing with the Center in 2023

Celebrating 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act

Rep. Norman Cheering On Bat Extinction

Colorado Welcomes Five New Wolves

Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

That's Wild: Rediscovered Species of Mole Delights World

NMLAWS: Defending Land, Air, Water, and the Sacred

That's Wild: Cockatoo Rockers

That's Wild: Humpback Whales Enjoy a Body Scrub

Help Save Wildlife From Mexico's Illegal Pet Trade (Excerpt from Unreported World)

Join the Movement to #EndFossilFuels

Horseshoe Crabs Spared for Another Year of Orgies (2023)

That's Wild: Cute Animals Creepy Secrets

Showdown for Wildlife Along the Texas Border (PBS news clip)

Endangered Bees Need Help

Sea otter munching

Reflecting on the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon N.M.

We Said It Loud and Clear in NYC: End Fossil Fuels

That's Wild: The Birth of a Sperm Whale

GAO: Trump's Border Wall Hurts Wildlife, Ecosystems

Get Ready to March on the U.N. Climate Summit (9/17/23, NYC)

Why I'm Marching to End Fossil Fuels

That's Wild: Self-Amputation Saves Fly Lives

Feather Stars Freestyle Into the Hearts of Nautilus Live Scientists

A Border River Turned Deadly

That's Wild: These Sharpshooters Make Pee, Not War

Suit Filed to Protect 20 Coral Species

That's Wild: Rare Footage of Baby Peacock Turtles

That's Wild: Rare Eel Gulps Itself Into Glory

Saving Endangered Species from SpaceX

Webinar: Holding New Mexico Accountable for Its Constitutional Duty to Protect the Environment

Vaquitas Are Still Out There

Frogs who pollinate? That's wild!

Tiny, Rare Sand Cats in Sahara Desert Caught on Camera

Baby Leafcutter Bee Emerges from Their Cozy Bee-rito

The Endangered Species Act: 50 Years of Extraordinary Success

That's Wild: Another Sex Trick … of Mussels

The Southwest Is Jaguar Country

Mexican Gray Wolves Back in the Wild

The Book of Extinction: Learn More About This New Partnership

"King of Sting," Dr. Justin Schmidt, hands child a scorpion

Good Riddance to Ducey's Junk Wall

Wasps Fight Back With Spiky Genitalia

That's Wild: Bats' Ventricular Folds of Mayhem

That's Wild: Octopus Females Chuck Shells at Males

Dixie Valley Toads Win Final Protection

Saving Howlers, Jaguars and More From Pet Trade

Baby black bear playing in snow

Bear Cub in the Snow

CNN Interview With Jean Su

The Importance of Horseshoe Crabs

American Burying Beetle Mural

Red Wolf Pups

'Better than Idaho' Isn't Good Enough. Washington's Wolves Deserve a Real Future

Target Shooting in the Sonoran Desert National Monument

Saving Diamondback Terrapins

Belugas and Polar Bears — Swimming Buddies?

Protect the Pisgah Rally

The Mountain Lion in Brett's Backyard

Wildlife Connectivity: Keeping Species Safe as They Roam the Wild (Session 1)

Wildlife Connectivity Keeping Species Safe as They Roam the Wild (Session 2)

Regenerative Grazing: Addressing the Colonial Roots of Cattle Ranching

A Wild Gila River

Join Us: Learn About Birds This Earth Week

Remembering the BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

There's growing concern among scientists and the public about the environmental cost of the Uni

Bobcat Gobbles Burmese Python Eggs

Habitat-Fed Beef: Separating Facts From Fiction on Grass-Fed and ‘Regenerative' Beef

"Oh, The Gila River": Protect the Gila River for Us!

The Run to Save Oak Flat

Save Marine Mammals and Celebrate This Lifesaving Law

Chimps Apply Insects to Wounds

Tell Congress to Support Healthy, Climate-Friendly School Food

Rare Red Wolf Caught On Camera

SLOE: River's End Film Screening and Discussion

Meanwhile in Florida

Remembering Lost Species

Victories in Alaska

RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR WOLVES

Wildlife and City Lights

Wildlife of Los Angeles

California Pipeline Incidents 1986 to 2021

People vs. Fossil Fuels: Washington, D.C., Oct. 11-15

Borderlands Mama and Baby Bear

Leaping Lynx

Mama Coati and Coati Kittens

Curious California Puma

Senator Kelly: You Can Protect Oak Flat

Exxon's Dangerous Oil Trucking Route

President Biden: Clean Cars Now

This Beetle Walks on Water... Upside-Down

Biden, Keep Your Promise (120 seconds)

Biden, Keep Your Promise (45 seconds)

Saving Life on Earth: Help Save Gray Wolves

Biden, Keep Your Promise

Biden Keep Your Promise

#HotBearSummer

Let's Keep Emperor Penguins On Ice

Film Screening and Discussion: "8 Billion Angels"

Baby Elephants Don't Like Naps Either

Fighting Extinction in Nevada

Beaver Self-Care

Film Discussion: “The Condor & The Eagle”

Rare Mexican Spotted Owl Hunts Bats

A Simple Way to Save Diamondback Terrapins

#Fuzzbutts

Unauthorized Grazing at Agua Fria National Monument

Film Screening and Discussion of Our Gorongosa

Take Action to Save Gray Wolves

Resistance and Extinction: A Conversation about Thoreau, Loss and Hope

Creating a More Just Food System

Help Save Western Monarchs From Extinction

Rio Tinto Plunders

Cleaner Cars Now

There's a New Jaguar in Town

This Sea Slug Self-Decapitates for Survival

The Courtship Dance of the California Condor

Rally 'Round the River: Rise up for Snake River Salmon, Orcas and Communities

To Kid or Not to Kid: Join Us for a Film and Discussion

Wolves Need the Endangered Species Act

Snow Day for Wolves

Wild Arizona Jaguar and Ocelot on Remote Camera

A River's Plight: Join Us for a Film and Discussion

Jaguars vs. the Border Wall

Tell U.S. Forest Service: Leave These Ancient Trees Alone

Sandhill Cranes in New Mexico

#NotAnotherFoot of the Border Wall

Climate Reality Check

No Radioactive Roads in the U.S.A.

Manatee mortalities

Saving Life on Earth: Film Screening and Discussion - The Bees of Grand Staircase Escalante

Emergency: The Future of Wolf Protection

Mother Bear and Rambunctious Cub Wrestle and Bathe

Saving Life on Earth: Defending Scary Creatues from Frightening Attacks

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of Africa's Imperiled Wildlife

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of Mountain Lions and Wildlife Crossings

Will the Host Please Mute Mr. Snapper

Saving Life on Earth: Carnivores in the Crosshairs

The Face of Wildlife Trade In the U.S.

Saving Life on Earth: Success Stories and Strategies

Wild & Weird: National Weather Service Detects Massive Eruption of Bats in Phoenix

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on Saving Endangered Plants

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of Sea Turtles

Wild & Weird: How Leopard Slugs Mate

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on Saving Monarchs and Other Insects

Tree-climbing canids in the borderlands of Arizona!

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion on Protecting People and Wildlife from Pesticides

Wild & Weird: One of World's Rarest Snails Lives in the Desert

California Condor Cools Off in a Creek

Behold Endangered Blanding's Turtle Hatchlings

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of the Borderlands

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on Contraception, Consumption and Conservation

This Bird Song Went Viral

Long Mountain

Interview with Maxine Trump, Director of To Kid or Not to Kid

Skunk Handstand

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on the Future of Climate Activism

Stop Formosa Plastics

Saving Life On Earth: The Fossil Fuel Industry is Building Plastic Factories

This Giant Water Bug May Be the World's Greatest Dad

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion on Justice, Race, Solidarity and the Environment

BorderViews #52: Trump's Border Wall Threatens Arizona Trail

Saving Life on Earth: Eating to Save the Planet

Saving Life on Earth: Meat Production and the Extinction Crisis

Saving Life On Earth Wolves in the West

Report from the Border: Blasting Granite

A Discussion of Two of the West's Toughest Predators

Demand Action on Plastic Pollution by Fossil Fuel Companies

Saving Half the Earth: An Earth Day Discussion

Victory for California's Mountain Lions

BorderView: Jaguar Corridor in the Crosshairs

Saving Life on Earth April 16

Trio of Bear Cubs

Wolf Lick

Bobat Mom Teaches Her Kitten to Jump

The Call of the Pika

American White Pelicans Hitch River Ride on a Log

Frogsicle

Jaguar Habitat

Florida Wildlife

BFFs: Gray Fox and Western Spotted Skunk

Mazama Pocket Gopher

Javelinas in the Arizona Borderlands: Remote Wildlife Cameras

Bat Snack

Dancing Frogs In The Western Ghats

BorderViews: Sonoyta Mud Turtle

Valentine's Day for Bobcats

BorderViews: San Pedro River Wildlife

How are butterflies surviving the massive Australian fires?

This is a Tardigrade

Beyond Climate Denial: Exposing Fossil Fuel Industry Tactics

The Urgent Need to #StopFormosa

People vs. Plastic

BorderViews: Nellie Jo David, Hia-Ced O'odham Activist

Quitobaquito Pupfish: Tough, Tiny Fish on the Border

BorderViews: A Poem About Border Militarization

Border Patrol Destroying Endangered Species Habitat

This is a fight for all life on Earth

Borderviews: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Palmyra Atoll

Endangered Species Mural Project: Seward, Alaska

Roll up to the club like what up, millipede stampede

Delightfully tiny Florida key deer could lose their federal protection

What do Kangaroos do when it snows?

BorderViews: Imminent Border Wall Construction in National Park Lands in Arizona

Don't Let Big Plastic Trash our Oceans

The future of America's wolves is being decided now

The Lake Titicaca Water Frog

How Road Barriers Killed Two Young California Cougars

The Mega Malabar Tree Nymph

We're fighting to save giraffes from extinction

BorderViews: Jaguar Country

How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands

One of the World's Rarest Flowers

This wildlife crossing reduced vehicle collisions by 85 percent

Trump's border wall will devastate the San Pedro River

Trump's Border Wall is Devastating to Wildlife

What does a fever of cownose rays look like?

Zoom into a Blue Morpho Butterfly Wing

We Delivered Almost 1 Million Comments to Save America's Wolves

We're Taking Trump to Court to Save Emperor Penguins

Rare Footage of Mountain Lion Creating Tinder Profile

Endangered Cat Herding in Florida

"Don't Shoot" -- Esperanza Spalding Speaks Up to Save America's Wolves

The Great Garbage Patch

Laiken Wildlife Refuge Video

California Needs Wildlife Crossings

Border Views: Not Our Values

Trump Admin Approves Mine in Jaguar Habitat

#BorderViews: Wolf Crossing The Border

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Dragoon Mountains in Snow

A Wall By Any Other Name

Bison, Jaguars, and the Border

Endangered Species Mural #20 in Yuma, Ariz.

First 20 Miles of Trump's New Wall

Millions of Monarch Butterflies

Float Like a Dragontail Butterfly...

The Dugong Dougie

Father and son monitoring wildlife in Arizona

Meanwhile in Florida...panthers, gators and bears using wildlife crossings

Ya'll Ain't Ready for Lil' Jawz

One of the Greenest Schools in America

Una de las escuelas más verdes en América

I CAN HAZ UR FACE OFF

Coyote in the Sonoran Desert

Protection for the Candy Darter and Habitat

Beavers climb trees better than potatoes

Newell's Shearwater Release

September 8th March In San Francisco

A Monarch Caterpillar's First Meal

Watch This Borderlands Black Bear Grow Up On Remote Cameras

Bill Snape Speaks Out On Brett Kavanaugh

Togo pack male and pups

Bear Mother and Cubs in a Food Coma Cuddle Puddle

San Pedro River

Jaguarundi: The Obscure Borderlands Cat Few People Know

The Seductive Chest Sac Swagger of the Greater Sage Grouse

Meanwhile, Off the Coast of North Carolina...

Patagonia Puma

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

Endangered Species Act Under Attack

Sierra Newts Mating

Stop the Griz Hunt in Wyoming

The Endangered Axolotl

It's a Rainblow!

Meanwhile in Florida:

Getting through the tail end of this winter like

Lion's mane nudibranch

Two Octopuses Square Off In A Shipwreck

Florida panthers, river otters and bears on remote cameras

Wolves, Bears and Bobcats in Michigan, Oh My!

Ringtails

Borderlands Bear Butt

Chimaera: Happy Halloween

Rattlesnake Den Gassing

What is this googly-eyed critter?

Florida softshell turtles: Aquatic Weirdo Savants

Vote today!

Tucson Stands with Standing Rock, November 15, 2016

Cliff swallows: Avian Master Architects & Guerilla Moms

This Thanksgiving Give Thanks to Standing Rock

The Real Lives of Reindeer

Power to the Pika!

The Trump Resistance Tour is Coming to a City Near You

Trumpapillar

Native Bee Diversity in North America

Desert Bighorn Sheep Adapt and Chill

Bald Eagles Are Good Parenting Partners

Butterfllies Feasting on Scat

North America's Largest Land Mollusk

Funky American Woodcock

Rare Yosemite Falls Rainbow

Sonoran Gopher Snake On a Vertical Egg Hunt

Borderlands Bears

Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died

Sea Cuke Poo to the Rescue

Multnomah County Webinar: How to Pass a Resolution Against Offshore Drilling

LA County Resolution Webinar

AZ Trophy Hunting Ban Petition

The Language of Prairie Dogs

Ignite Change: Stand With Lands

Rare six gilled stingray

Ryan Zinke Confronted at Grand Canyon National Park

Petey Mesquitey performs "Im a Borderland Jaguar" 10/18/17 at Sky Bar in Tucson, Ariz.

The Great Clam Escape

Cute Coho Salmon Hatching

Straight Outta Habitat: San Gabriel Chestnut Snail

Jaguar Named "Sombra" in Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona

Borderlands Critter Cams

Relay Walkthrough Video

Cockatoos Play the Drums to Attract Ladies

This Tick Could Make You Allergic to Meat

Behold the Robin of the Sea

Back Into the Wild: Compilation of Wildlife Releases

Fight Trump, Save the Arctic

Hiaki High School Students Name a Jaguar in Arizona

Mount Graham Red Squirrel

Nudi by Nature Nudibranch Diversity

The Wall In The Wild: The U.S./ Mexico Border Wall

The Fascinating and Endangered Sex Lives of Freshwater Mussels

The Earth2Trump Tour Is Back

Damselflies Are Not Dragonflies

Arizona Has Giant Haboobs

Tucson People's Climate March

The Rare Desert Orchid: Coleman's Coralroot

Cesar Chavez Day

Día de César Chávez

Why is biodiversity important - with Sir David Attenborough | The Royal Society

What's Happening at COP15?

Moving An Elephant Is NOT As Easy As 1-2-3 | Defenders of the Wild | EarthX

Indigenous Youth Leading Solutions for Climate Justice, UNPFII 2024

Why biodiversity matters | The Circular Economy Show

Economics for a thriving planet | RSA Events

Greenpeace: 6 steps to protect forests and biodiversity

Bird Versus Wind Turbines by New York Times

COWSPIRACY - Official Trailer - HD

United Nations Decade on Biodiversity - Interactive webcast

Orangutan SOS: Save Armstrong

Introduction to the Ecological Mangrove Restoration (EMR) method and an outline of the project ob

Biodiversity Conservation by Thomas Lovejoy

Tracking Global Biodiversity by Ben Collen

Meet the Cacti Where a Data Center Is Planned on Public Land

The first-ever data center on public land

New Hope for Red Wolves

Protecting Public Land from Data Centers

We Just Took Emergency Legal Action to Stop the SpaceX Land Swap

Hang in there. We've got this.

We just sued to save the Endangered Species Act

Imagine losing your entire home.

ESA Habitat Law Suit Rapid Reaction

Shorebirds deserve protection from SpaceX launches.