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Loggerhead sea turtles are among the marine creatures vulnerable to seismic testing for gas and oil.
(Vladimir Wrangel / Getty Images)
Update August 20, 2024

Court Win Protects Endangered Whales and Sea Turtles From Oil Drilling

Judge strikes down federal assessment that allowed dangerous oil and gas drilling to kill imperiled wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Riceโ€™s whale, one of Earthโ€™s rarest whales. (Lisa Conger / Beth Josephson / Permit #21938 / NOAA Fisheries)
Press Release: Victory August 20, 2024

Court Orders Government to Protect Rare Gulf Whales, Sea Turtles, and Imperiled Marine Species from Damaging Effects of Offshore Drilling

Court rules that the official biological opinion is not adequate to protect species

The Puyallup River, with Mount Tahoma (Rainier) in the background. (David Seibold / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release: Victory August 19, 2024

Ninth Circuit Decision Upholds Earlier Court Ruling Ordering Partial Removal of Washingtonโ€™s Electron Dam

Ruling means a free-flowing Puyallup River for fish for the first time in more than 100 years

Pygmy rabbits are found in parts of Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, California, and Oregon.  (Serhano / Getty Images)
Article August 19, 2024

Weโ€™re Suing to Save the Worldโ€™s Smallest Bunnies

The federal government is dragging its big feet on protecting the pygmy rabbit.

A decorated warbonnet fish sits perched in a coral in the Gulf of Alaska. (Seascape Alaska / NOAA Ocean Exploration)
Press Release August 19, 2024

Oceana Sues Federal Fishery Managers for Failure to Protect Alaskaโ€™s Seafloor Habitats

National Marine Fisheries Service did not use best available science or develop conservation alternatives to protect ocean habitats in the Gulf of Alaska as required under federal law

document August 19, 2024

Order: Gulf of Mexico Drilling Biological Opinion

Order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland striking down a flawed federal agency assessment that governs how endangered and threatened marine species should be protected from Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas drilling.

document August 19, 2024

Ruling: Gulf of Mexico Drilling Biological Opinion

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland strikes down a flawed federal agency assessment that governs how endangered and threatened marine species should be protected from Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas drilling.

document August 16, 2024

Electron Dam: Ninth Circuit Decision

Ninth Circuit decision upholds earlier court ruling ordering partial removal of Washingtonโ€™s electron dam.

document August 16, 2024

Oceana Complaint: Protecting Seafloor Habitat from Bottom Trawling

Oceana argues that the National Marine Fisheries failed to meet obligations under the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act to protect corals, sponges and other seafloor habitats from bottom trawling.

Pygmy rabbits are found in parts of Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, California, and Oregon.  (Serhano / Getty Images)
Press Release August 15, 2024

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Worldโ€™s Smallest Rabbit in Eight Western States

Government has failed to take steps to protect the pygmy rabbit

Press Release August 14, 2024

Siguen sin Cumplirse las Medidas Ordenadas Por La Suprema Corte Mexicana Para Proteger el Arrecife Veracruzano

El proyecto de ampliaciรณn del puerto de Veracruz amenaza el ecosistema, que alberga la mayor biodiversidad de especies arrecifales del oeste del Golfo de Mรฉxico.

A grizzly bear in a Montana forest. (Beth Hibschman / Getty Images)
Article August 13, 2024

How Weโ€™re Helping Grizzlies Come Back from the Brink

Grizzly bear populations are recovering after a century of human-caused decline. Hereโ€™s what to know about grizzlies and how weโ€™re protecting this iconic species.

A reef and island off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico.
 (Cesar Morales / Getty Images)
Press Release August 13, 2024

Mexican Supreme Court Order to Protect the Veracruz Reef Still Unenforced

A port expansion project threatens the reef that hosts the greatest biodiversity of reef species in the western Gulf of Mexico

A Hawaiian Petrel chick on on Kaua'i. (Andre Raine)
Press Release: Victory August 8, 2024

Groups Reach Settlement Agreement with Grand Wailea to Protect Endangered Seabirds from Resort Lights

Grand Wailea to obtain federal permit and make monthly contributions to fund projects benefiting สปuaสปu in Maui County

document August 7, 2024

Grand Wailea: Settlement

Settlement agreement between plaintiffs Conservation Council for Hawaiสปi and Center for Biological Diversity and defendant BRE Iconic GWR LLC, regarding Hawaiian petrels.

Arctic grayling. A primary factor in the decline of the speciesโ€™ range has been the ongoing diversion of water from the graylingโ€™s stream habitat for agricultural uses and degradation of riparian areas. (K. Sowl / 2011 USFWS Alaska Fish Photo Contest)
Press Release: Victory August 7, 2024

Montanaโ€™s Arctic Grayling Get New Shot at Endangered Species Protection

Fish and Wildlife Service have twelve months for new finding on rare fish

document August 6, 2024

Order: FWS New Findings for Upper Missouri River DPS of Arctic Grayling

Fish and Wildlife Service is directed to make a new finding as to the status of the upper Missouri River basin distinct population segment of Arctic grayling within twelve months of this order.

A Newell's shearwater (สปaสปo) on Kaua`i. (Jim Denny)
Article August 5, 2024

One Small Seabird Egg Offers Hope for Hawaiโ€˜iโ€™s Biodiversity

The endemic Newellโ€™s shearwater has a chance at survival thanks to an innovative team of conservationists, researchers, and Earthjustice lawyers.