Program Term Archive
Endangered Species
Tell the Trump Admin: Don’t Weaken Right Whale Protections
Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeYour voice is needed to oppose weakening one of the most important federal safeguards protecting critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from lethal vessel strikes! The Trump administration plans to...
CITES CoP20 Concludes with Conservation Successes
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeHundreds of wild species gained important protections at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and...
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Proposed ESA Rollbacks Threaten Wildlife
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Trump administration is seeking to reinstate four regulations issued in 2019 during President Trump’s first term that severely weakened critical Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections. These regulations curtailed protections...
“God Squad” Seeks to Override Protections for Vulnerable Species
Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeThe Department of the Interior recently convened the Endangered Species Committee, aka the “God Squad,” for the first time in more than 30 years. During its meeting, the committee unanimously...
CITES
Endangered SpeciesRegulation of wildlife trade is essential to stem potentially irreversible reductions to wildlife populations. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was established...
Endangered Species Policy
Endangered SpeciesThe Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Engangered Species Act (ESA) are the primary international and US policies, respectively, in place...
Mexico’s Proposed New Regulations May Doom the Vaquita Porpoise to Extinction
Press ReleaseFebruary 5, 2026Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeMexico is on the brink of publishing new rules that will significantly weaken protections for the vaquita porpoise—the world’s most endangered cetacean—potentially leading to the extinction of the species. The...
CITES CoP20 Confers Wildlife Protections
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe recently concluded 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP20), held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan,...
IUCN Reaffirms Long-Tailed Macaques’ Endangered Status
Animals in Laboratories, Endangered Species, Terrestrial WildlifeIn October, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on wildlife conservation, officially reaffirmed the “endangered” designation of long-tailed macaques (LTMs)—a monkey species used extensively for biomedical...
Ask Congress to Urge Taiwan to Protect the Critically Endangered Taiwanese White Dolphin
Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeThe Taiwanese white dolphin (TWD) is a subspecies of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin found only on the west coast of Taiwan. Due to entanglement in fishing nets and habitat loss,...