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The votes are in! We received thousands of fantastic photos of wildlife and wild lands in this year’s photo contest, and had our supporters vote for their favorites. It was close competition, but here are the winners of Defenders of Wildlife’s 4th annual photo contest. Our grand prize...
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus ), also known as the Gulf of California harbor porpoise, is is the smallest and rarest of the cetaceans - which include whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Vaquitas are very rarely seen in the wild. The vaquita has a gray body with a pale gray/white belly and ...
Historically, hundreds of thousands of wolves roamed wild throughout North America. During the 19th and 20th centuries, as the human population grew, people began to compete with wolves for game and habitat. Wolves were also viewed as pests and vermin and were slaughtered by the thous...
Prairie dogs are burrowing rodents that live in large colonies in the grasslands of central and western North America. The five species of prairie dogs (black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison’s, Mexican and Utah) were once likely more than one billion strong, and their colonies covered ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 14, 2011) - Congress gave final approval for a budget deal today that includes a non-budget provision to strip federal protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies. The provision, put forth by Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), requires the ...
Senate Ag panel OKs spraying pesticides over water Bill would allow pesticide users to dump toxic chemicals directly into waterways Washington, D.C. (June 21, 2011) - The U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee approved H.R. 872 today, a bill that will exempt pestici...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Speak Up for Sea Otter Recovery Now! In 1986, a "no-otter-management zone" was created off the California coast that has seriously jeopardized the recovery of California, or southern, sea otters. On August 26, 2011, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) publishe...
