Tag: defenders of wildlife

Thanks for showing up for wildlife in 2022. We wanted to make sure you had a chance to see what an amazing difference you’re making by supporting Defenders. Here’s to reaching new heights together in 2023.

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Thank you for your commitment to preventing extinction, protecting habitat, and defending nature.

We couldn’t do what we do without you.

2022 flew by.

But the numbers prove that you helped protect wildlife and wild places this year.

24 Black-Footed Ferret kits released in the wild.

84 Yellowstone Bison were transferred to Tribal Nations in Montana, Washington, and Oklahoma.

75 years supported … Continue

Learn more about the 5 drivers of biodiversity loss from COP15 – the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal. Dr. Lindsay Rosa, our Director of CCI calls for bold action now to help conserve the 1 million species facing extinction.

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Hi, I’m Dr. Lindsay Rosa, Director of our Center for Conservation Innovation at Defenders of Wildlife.

I’m here in Montreal, Canada, at COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity, where inside there’s a lot of discussion on how to get us back on track for conserving biodiversity worldwide.

There are five main drivers of biodiversity loss – habitat loss being … Continue

Join our Director of CCI, Lindsay Rosa, in Montreal at COP15 – the 2022 Convention on Biological Diversity. With over 1 million species at risk of extinction we need to take bold action to conserve biodiversity, and life as we know it, now and for future generations.

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I’m Dr. Lindsay Rosa, Director of our Center for Conservation Innovation at Defenders of Wildlife here in Montreal, Canada, at COP15, where leaders from all over the world are working together to set targets that will hopefully put us back on track for recovering global biodiversity.

They have their work cut … Continue

Biodiversity is declining around the globe, with approximately one million species threatened with extinction in the coming decades! The U.S. Endangered Species Act is one of the strongest wildlife laws in the world and was created to combat this loss. Tell Congress that in the face of a growing biodiversity crisis, funding the ESA has never been more important.

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Right now, about 200 species like the Prairie Gray Fox, are waiting to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. All these vulnerable species will need these protections in order to survive.

But a recent analysis from Defenders of … Continue

Celebrate from CITES with Alejandra Goyenechea, our Senior International Counsel. The historical glass frogs proposal was just adopted by consensus, further proving international support for conserving biological diversity.

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Alejandra Goyenechea: We’re here in Panama and we’ve been here for almost ten days and trying to support the countries that submitted the proposal for a listing glass frogs in Appendix Two.

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So we were really nervous because the formal European Union position was not to be in support of this proposal. This proposal was defeated by the EU three years ago and now three years … Continue