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Farm Bill 101: Conservation Compliance Provisions

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Join Mary Pfaffko, Senior Policy Analyst for Private Lands, to learn how the Conservation Compliance is critical to protecting a variety of species and their habitats!

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Through the Farm Bill the US Department of Agriculture incentivizes farmers and ranchers to conserve natural resources on their land to receive these voluntary incentives. Participants agree to have a soil conservation plan for their highly irritable soil and to not drain or fill a wetland to farm the land. Why does this matter? Picture this. It’s 200 years ago on North America’s Great Plains. It’s teeming with bison, black-footed ferret, greater … Continue

Defenders: A Day In The Life – Launching W.A.L.T. At Rally

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Join Lucy, our Private Lands Policy Analyst, as she debuts our new land trust tool called W.A.L.T. at the Land Trust Alliance Rally in Portland, Oregon. W.A.L.T. stands for Wildlife and Land Trusts. This tool is a website designed to assist land trusts to determine which federal programs will best fit their priorities. You can check it out at https://defenders-cci.org/publication/walt/

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Hi, I’m Lucy Lefkowitz, and I am the Private Lands Policy Analyst with Defenders of Wildlife.


Today and this week I’m in Portland, Oregon, and I’m here for the Land Trust Alliance Rally Conference.

Land Trusts are nonprofit … Continue

The Pinyon Jay Needs the ESA!

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In August 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that there is substantive evidence that the Pinyon Jay may warrant protections under the Endangered Species Act. The finding comes more than a year after the Service’s 90-day requirement to review Defenders’ petition for species listing under the ESA. Pinyon Jays are a keystone species that is significantly decreasing in numbers throughout its habitat in the West.

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The Pinyon Jay is worth saving for a lot of reasons. First and foremost, Defenders of Wildlife believes that every wildlife species is important and worth saving. But the Pinyon Jay is … Continue

Defenders: A Day in the Life – Celebrating Latino Conservation Week

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Celebrate Latino Conservation Week through habitat restoration, outreach, and education with our Texas Representative, Azalia Rodríguez, and Field Intern for the Southwest, Isabella Orta. Defenders of Wildlife partnered with Latino Outdoors for an action-packed weekend highlighting and supporting the Latino community’s role in conservation.

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Azalia: It’s day 1 of our Latino Conservation weekend event – we’re partnering with Latino Outdoors and of course, Defenders of Wildlife.

One part of the reason I love my job so much is because we get to do a lot of habitat restoration work for community led events just like this. And so … Continue

The ESA At 50: A Passion For Peregrines

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From the brink of extinction to thriving in the wild, Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders’ President & CEO, recounts her first hand-experience with recovering Peregrine Falcons using the power of the Endangered Species Act.

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Without the Endangered Species Act to say, “Stop, stop, look, listen and act.” We would just be reading about species in the history books or seeing remnants of them in zoos and aquariums.

The Endangered Species Act is the tool to make sure that we keep the best of what’s left and make responsible choices and to balance the needs of society and nature.

I … Continue