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WildEarth Guardians

Website
http://www.wildearthguardians.org
Contact Name
Rebecca Sobel
Contact Email
rsobel@antispamwildearthguardians.org
Location
 
Forest Guardians and Sinapu, two regional conservation groups have joined forces to create a stronger organization to protect and restore the wild places, wildlife and wild rivers in the American West. The new organization, WildEarth Guardians, creates a conservation force that pressures policy makers and government agencies to better protect and restore the lands, wildlife, and waters from the Great Plains and Desert Southwest across the Rockies and through the intermountain West.

Project Update

Wildlife

WildEarth Guardians’ Wildlife Program focuses on preventing extinction and promoting recovery of imperiled native plants and animals in the West.

Sadly the threats to wildlife continue to mount. Fragmented and polluted by logging, mining, livestock grazing, oil and gas extraction and other human activities, habitat for many species is rapidly dwindling. WildEarth Guardians confronts these threats in the court of law and the court of public opinion.

Working nationally, regionally and locally, our Wildlife Program is staving off ongoing efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act—our nation’s most powerful environmental law. We work to protect the key species that support entire ecosystems such as prairie dogs and wolves. For imperiled species not yet protected by the Endangered Species Act, we advocate for legal listing. For those safeguarded by the Act, we monitor their return from the brink of extinction to ensure protection strategies are effective. When government agencies bow to special interests and persecute wildlife, we demand reform. And where education can rally support for wildlife, we reach out to inspire and empower the public.

Become an ESA Guardian

Protecting and Restoring Endangered Species and The Western Grouse Project and Prairie Dog Ecosystem Project

Carnivore Project: Wolves and Wolf FAQs, Lynx and The Western Ark

Endangered Species Recovery and Borderlands Biodiversity

Wildlife Policy Reform: Abolishing Federal Wildlife Killing and Monitoring State Wildlife Management

 

Wild Places

WildEarth Guardians’ Wild Places Program protects public and private land from destruction and restores previously damaged areas throughout the West.

Our Wild Places Program does hands-on restoration projects with local communities to repair damage that has been done. Where myopic desires to tame nature have suppressed natural processes such as wildland fire, we fight in the courts and on the ground to have these processes safely restored. Because poisons are spread across vast swaths of the wild in attempts to control exotic plants, we use land management methods that show mechanical removal is safer and more effective. Working with policy-makers and private landowners, we advocate for voluntary livestock grazing permit buy-outs and a cultural heritage that values the diversity of life.

Protecting and Restoring Special Places such as the Colorado Plateau, the Great Plains and the Sagebrush Sea, Chihuahuan & Sonoran Deserts, our Rocky Mountains and the Gila Bioregion

Protection and Policy Reform for our Public Lands: Grazing Lands,  Forests, and Deserts and Grasslands

Retiring Grazing Permits and Challenging the Harmful Use of Toxins and removal of Invasive Species

Healing our Public Lands: Forest Restoration and Riparian Area Restoration

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Wild Rivers

WildEarth Guardians’ Wild Rivers Program focuses on advocating for clean, free-flowing rivers across the West.

Where cattle grazing compromises rivers and streams, our Wild Rivers Program seeks to have the cattle removed. Where we can secure public lands leases in order to conserve the area, we remove invasive plants from streamsides. We mobilize hundreds of citizens each year to plant native trees along riverbanks on both public and private land. We empower citizens to monitor the health of rivers or streams in their area. To stop contamination, we litigate. To ensure healthy flows in rivers, we not only litigate, we raise public awareness. We work with local municipalities to improve water quality and to provide funding for river protection. And we use federal laws such as the Clean Water Act to make sure our cleanest waters stay clean.

Protecting and Restoring Wild Rivers and our River Preserves and Private Land Projects and restoration events such as
Stream Team and volunteer opportunities like our Watershed Guardians

River Policy Reform to protect our Living Rivers, Clean Water and Wild Forests

 

Climate & Energy

WildEarth Guardians’ Climate & Energy Program focuses on addressing the climate crisis by challenging fossil fuel extraction and use, promoting energy conservation, and promoting appropriate sustainable energy.

Where backward-looking industry proposes new fossil fuel facilities like coal-fired power plants, we oppose the plans with every legal and advocacy tool available. Where government agencies lease our public lands for extraction at the expense of wildlife and special places, we hold them accountable. We research, encourage and model habits that will conserve energy and curb consumption. Working for solutions, we promote appropriate renewable energy projects within local communities. We educate and empower citizens to demand change from their policy-makers. We give people the opportunity to improve and connect with their environment by participating in tree planting and land restoration events.

Addressing the Climate Crisis, Promoting Energy Conservation and Promoting Appropriate Renewables
We are Climate Guardians and we work for Fossil Fuel Policy Reform and are Challenging Power Plants and Challenging Energy Extraction on Public Lands
 

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