Just a few hours ago, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its failure to develop a national gray wolf recovery plan under the Endangered Species Act.
Wolves are still suffering widespread persecution and are far from recovered in the landscapes where they evolved. We'll keep fighting for them until they're given the space they need to live out their wild lives in peace.
This is just another day in our fight for wildlife — but a critical day for you to show support of our lifesaving work to protect endangered species.
The extinction crisis calls us to fight for each and every species. That's why the Saving Life on Earth Fund was created — and why your support is critical.
More than 45 U.S. species have winked out forever waiting for Endangered Species Act protection.
And now western populations of gray wolves, alligator snapping turtles, cactus ferruginous pygmy owls, Miami tiger beetles and nearly 400 others are hovering in limbo. They have no time left to lose.
The Act requires decisions on endangered species protections to be completed within two years. And yet, on average, species wait for nine years.
In 2016 the Fish and Wildlife Service rightly created a plan to address the waitlist. But in every year since, it has continued to miss its own deadlines — leaving wildlife in a dangerous purgatory where some of them go extinct.
And while the Service did protect 45 species this past year, all but one of those decisions were driven by Center for Biological Diversity legal actions.
No other group has our track record of fighting extinction: The Center has secured Endangered Species Act protection for more than 740 species and more than half a billion acres of critical habitat.
But 1 million species are on track to go extinct in the coming decades.
With each loss the wild world slips farther into the past.
That's why were are urgently working to protect imperiled wildlife.
Please help by making a Giving Tuesday gift now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund to have it matched.