Through one of the darkest moments in conservation history, the Center for Biological Diversity found hope in our lifesaving work. We took legal action nearly every five days this year to save life on Earth.
You can count on the Center for Biological Diversity to be uncompromising in our fights for endangered species, public lands, and the laws that protect the natural world.
In 2025 we obtained proposed Endangered Species Act protections for southern hognose snakes, Barrens darters, and ghost orchids.
Thanks to Center legal action, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had broken the law when it denied our petition to protect wolves across the West under the Act.
We defended grizzly bear habitat from destructive logging in Montana’s Kootenai National Forest and from expanded grazing near Yellowstone National Park.
And the Center helped defeat a dangerous U.S. Senate scheme that would have sold millions of acres of public lands to private developers and corporations.
But there are colossal fights ahead.
The Trump administration has rolled out plans to decimate the Endangered Species Act.
It wants to open up more than 1 billion acres of offshore ocean areas to oil and gas lease sales — and drill in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It's trying to rescind the Roadless Rule and ram through plans for more mining, logging, pesticides, and pollution.
In the year ahead, we'll keep fighting for species great and small. And we'll protect the oceans, rivers, deserts, mountains, plains and forests that allow them to survive.