At a roundtable discussion of borderlands issues led by Sen. Bernie Sanders earlier this week, our borderlands program coordinator left with a little more hope about an equitable future for both wildlife and people in the area, as compassionate elected officials work to protect this unique region. Photo: Courtesy of Myles Traphagen
This Saturday—September 22—is National Public Lands Day. While it’s a chance to celebrate and give back to our shared spaces, it’s also an opportunity to shift the public policy that governs these special areas to include a broader ecological perspective. Photo: Kristen M. Caldon
Secretary Zinke’s new Secretarial Order, issued today, is the Trump Administration’s first major step to address the need for more comprehensive wildlife corridor protection at the landscape level. Photo: William Gladish
President Trump has formally signed an order modifying Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. Take back your national monuments and wild places from the Trump Administration by contacting your Senators now. Photo: Bob Wick, BLM
Saturday, September 30th is National Public Lands Day, the nation’s largest volunteer effort for public lands. While most Americans love their public lands, we recognize that many of our beloved parks and monuments fail to fully embrace the history of the cultures that lived and thrived in these places long before Teddy Roosevelt started protecting them. But that’s quickly changing. Photo: U.S. Department of the Interior
Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a draft recovery plan for Mexican gray wolves. Wildlands Network has been preparing for this moment for a very long time. We expected to be disappointed by many of the components of the recovery plan, as well as its overall vision. Unfortunately, USFWS met our expectations. Photo: Juan Carlos Bravo
Last Wednesday, May 17, Wildlands Network hosted two empowering events: the Salt Lake City premiere of the film Born to Rewild and the 2017 Western Wildway Annual Meeting. The near-tangible wonder and inspiration in the rooms after both events exemplify the spirit and opportunity within Wildlands Network’s critical conservation efforts. Photo: Karsten Heuer
On May 3, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget to fund the federal government through the end of September 2017. The budget now moves to the Senate, with a looming deadline of Friday, May 5 at midnight for a vote. Some news outlets and Democrats have publically proclaimed this budget doesn’t include money for a border wall. They are wrong. Photo: Wildlands Network
Wildlands Network and Conservation Science Partners released a new report today that reveals previously unidentified habitat and corridors for jaguars in the southern United States and northern Mexico. Photo: Northern Jaguar Project/Naturalia
Wildlands Network recently submitted comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) suggesting ways to improve their proposed jaguar recovery plan. The FWS comment deadline comes just 2 weeks after we learned some very exciting news: a new jaguar has been photo-documented in the Dos Cabezas mountains in southern Arizona! Photo: Northern Jaguar Project, Naturalia
Sign the petition to tell Congress to build bridges, not walls, along the border. Across the border, there are already over 650 miles of fencing and barriers. Our borderlands have become militarized with checkpoints, towers and armed border patrol officers who drive across our public lands and along the border at will. All of this activity has caused needless deaths of both humans and wildlife in our borderlands. Photo: Northern Jaguar Project/Naturalia
“Existing fences along the U.S-Mexico border have already blocked or limited traditional paths for wildlife movement and migration necessary for the survival of the Southwest’s native animals, including America’s only known jaguars,” said Katie Davis, public lands advocate for international conservation organization Wildlands Network. Photo: Northern Jaguar Reserve and Naturalia