Tag: defenders of wildlife

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.

(Postcards from Panama intro)

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

Learn about protecting all 21 species of horned lizards with Juan Carlos from our Mexico program at the CITES convention in Panama City.

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Hi, I’m Juan Carlos Cantú. I’m with Defenders of Wildlife in Mexico. But right now I’m in Panama City at the CITES convention.

Well, today, what we saw were two proposals, one presented by the United States for one of the species of horned lizards in the U.S. that is also found in Mexico. And another proposal by Mexico for all 21 species of horned lizards. You can find them in Mexico, the United States, … Continue

Orion, our International Associate, provides updates on requiem sharks, Bonnethead Sharks, and freshwater stingrays from the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES for short).

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The first week of COP 19 has been really eventful, so we wanted to provide a few updates.

On Wednesday, we supported a side event by Costa Rica and Panama. That was a big success. We had a rough timeslot at 7:30 AM, so when the room ended up being completely packed, we were very excited.

We also had a number of important proposals that came … Continue

Join Defenders in celebrating 50 years of conservation success through the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) .We look forward to another 50 years of using this critically important law to protect our marine mammals in the United States and around the world. We hope you’ll join the celebration! Learn more: https://dfnd.us/mmpa.

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So if we’ve learned anything from the last 50 years of marine mammal science and conservation, it’s that we need to intervene to stop population declines before it’s too late.

Hi, I’m Jane Davenport. I’m a senior attorney at Defenders of Wildlife. For the last nine … Continue