Recently, Wildlands Network applauded Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s support of restoring grizzlies to the North Cascades. While his support is a conservation victory, we must make sure we also advocate for the protection of large landscapes that will protect a multitude of species. Photo: Jessica Walz Schafer
The Washington Post covered the recent release of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 5-year review of red wolves’ endangered status, including Wildlands Network response to the USFWS’s failure to functionally protect wild red wolves. Photo: Seth Bynum, PDZA
This Associated Press article, which appeared in the Miami Herald and U.S. News and World Report, highlights the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new 5-year review of the red wolf’s endangered status. The story includes quotes from Dr. Ron Sutherland on how the USFWS continues to fail the red wolf, despite the agency acknowledgement of the wolf’s endangered status. Photo: Ron Sutherland
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a five-year status review of the red wolf this afternoon, with the review concluding the species continues to deserve federal listing as “endangered.” The agency acknowledges there are now only around 40 red wolves left in the wild, with only three known breeding pairs remaining. Photo: USFWS
Una reforma de ley para hacer que los Pasos de Fauna sean obligatorios en todas las carreteras federales de México está avanzando en el Congreso. Aunque su camino a la aprobación va a ser un proceso largo y cansado vamos a trabajar incanzablemente para que se vote a su favor. Foto: Juan Carlos Bravo
Rare and elusive, the wolverine faces a tenuous tomorrow, with only 300 wolverines estimated to remain in the lower 48 states. Our Pacific Wildway aims to change the potentially ill-fated course of this iconic species’ future. Photo: Steven Gnam
In this second installment of our Species of the Pacific blog post series, we introduce you to the northern spotted owl. With drastic changes to their habitat, the species’ future is tenuous. Photo: Redwood National and State Parks
We are just getting started on our innovative work to rewild the incredible Pacific landscape. To bring you along on our journey, we invite you to explore a few of the wild ecosystems here in the Pacific Northwest. Photo: National Park Service
The Monitor, a newspaper in McAllen, Texas, interviewed Borderlands Coordinator Myles Traphagen about the Border BioBlitz, a citizen-science effort to document the stunning biodiversity along the borderlands, which would be devastated by a border wall. Photo: Myles Traphagen
The U.S. Midwest has long been a hole in visionary maps of a rewilded North America. Wildlands Network’s Executive Director, Greg Costello, says it’s time to to fill in the gap. Photo: Bill Thompson, USFWS
In 2017, Wildlands Network explored the possibilities of a connected Western coast. What did we discover? That the Pacific may be the best place to implement our bold vision with a new connected and protected Wildway. Photo: Katy Schaffer
While our lawsuit against the USFWS for their flawed Mexican wolf recovery plan works its way through the courts, there is plenty of work to do on the ground. Wildlands Network hopes to play a key role in these ongoing efforts by working with the Forest Service to design management strategies for public lands that will give Mexican wolves a better shot at recovery. Photo: Jim Clark, USFWS
Western Program Director Katie Davis wrote this response to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s recent Secretarial Order, which calls for improving habitat protection for big-game species and their migration corridors in the West. Photo: William C. Gladish
Borderlands Coordinator Myles Traphagen visited the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge last month as local activists held a rally to protest the proposed border wall that would slice the refuge in half and devastate the area’s native wildlife. Photo: Myles Traphagen
In this article for Mongabay, a non-profit provider of conservation and environmental science news, Juan Carlos Bravo discusses the catastrophic effects that fencing the entire U.S.-Mexico border will have on wildlife and wild places. Photo: Brian Powell