The Center for Biological Diversity is fighting each day for the wildlife we love.
Next year we'll keep fighting to protect species like polar bears, manatees and others, reintroduce jaguars to the United States and restore the full power of the Endangered Species Act.
All told, in 2022, we won lifesaving protections for 45 species under the Act, including lesser prairie chickens, magnificent ramshorn snails, foothill yellow-legged frogs, and Hermes copper butterflies.
We secured a landmark ruling that restored federal protection to gray wolves outside the northern Rockies and sued to win back Endangered Species Act protection for wolves that remain in the crosshairs in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
After a decade-long fight, we achieved Endangered Species Act protection for emperor penguins.
We kicked trespassing cattle out of sensitive and federally protected habitats in the Southwest.
And we filed a groundbreaking petition to reintroduce jaguars to New Mexico and protect 14 million acres as critical habitat in Arizona and New Mexico.
But there's so much more to be done.
In the year ahead we'll keep pushing to have the extinction and climate crises declared national emergencies. Our goal is to double the amount of protected land and water.
The Center has secured Endangered Species Act protection for more than 740 species and more than half a billion acres of critical habitat.
Saving the natural world's biodiversity is the fight of a lifetime. With our love for the wild, there's so much we can do and protect.