The previous couple of weeks haven’t been straightforward. I hope everyone seems to be doing effectively. I’ve been reaching out to family and friends – and doing loads of hugging.
And our group is coming collectively. I used to be just lately so grateful to you all to your great generosity on Giving Tuesday. Due to you, we smashed our purpose of $10,000, bringing in a complete $13,401.
It has additionally been useful to mirror on ESC’s historical past.
The Endangered Species Coalition was born in 1981 — a time of grave hazard for wildlife. Involved about efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act throughout its 1982 reauthorization, conservation leaders from the Nationwide Audubon Society, Sierra Membership, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Protection Fund, Earthjustice, and World Wildlife Fund realized that we would have liked to foster a grassroots power for endangered species. Thus, the ESC was born, and this synergistic motion has grown to over 400 member organizations, 500,000 supporters, and sentinels, defeating each main effort since to undermine the ESA.
We aren’t afraid of a combat.
And we all know one is coming. Over the past Trump Administration, we noticed new laws to delist grey wolves throughout the U.S. and to weaken habitat protections. With a pliant Congress and an much more radical agenda, we all know that bedrock legal guidelines essential to wildlife are on the chopping block.
However I’ve hope. Right here at ESC our wonderful employees is devoted to 1 factor, defending biodiversity. Final week we met for 3 days to plan our technique. Now we have champions in Congress, teams across the nation and a strong group of 500,000 members — we will likely be mobilizing all of them.
That is what provides me hope: our collective love of wildlife, perception in humanity, and dedication to our group. We all know that 84% of People assist a powerful Endangered Species Act. We’re on this collectively.
Thanks to your continued assist. Collectively, we’re stronger.
Hugs,
Susan
Endangered Species Coverage in 2024 and Past
By Endangered Species Coalition
After the consequential United States 2024 elections, one factor stays unchanged – human actions are driving over a million species to extinction. President-elect Trump and the Congressional majority are not any pals to wildlife. They may search to finish protections for weak species like wolves, grizzlies, and whales, and roll again the Endangered Species Act itself. Endangered Species Coalition commits to educating, organizing, and mobilizing individuals who love wildlife so collectively we will cease their extinction agenda earlier than cherished plant and animal species are misplaced without end.
Organizing for Biodiversity – ESC’s Activist Coaching Lab and New Nationwide Grassroots Organizer
By Dalton George, Nationwide Grassroots Organizer
Greetings from the mountains of lovely Boone, North Carolina. Since our final e-newsletter, I’ve joined the Endangered Species Coalition workforce as the brand new Nationwide Grassroots Organizer! I’m excited to contribute to the work of the ESC workforce and coalition.
This Fall, I joined different ESC employees and a number of other member teams in Washington, D.C., for a rally supporting the Tribal Heritage and American Bison, Grizzly Bear, and Wolf Restoration and Coexistence Act. Becoming a member of with member teams, I met with North Carolina legislators to debate essential laws to guard and enhance biodiversity.
I’ve additionally been arduous at work main the Activist Coaching Lab. Learn extra…
The Northern Rockies—Grizzly Bears and a Farewell
By Derek Goldman, Northern Rockies Consultant
On the time of this writing, fall is (lastly) settling in right here in western Montana. Following an prolonged dry summer time, it has begun to snow within the excessive nation. Little question, grizzly bears are deep in hyperphagia—the annual organic cycle the place bears search to devour as many energy as doable to arrange their our bodies for a protracted winter of hibernation.
The Endangered Species Coalition can also be making ready. We anticipate an announcement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within the subsequent few months that would change the trajectory of grizzly bear restoration within the western U.S., and we’re elevating the alarm. Learn extra…
Biodiversity in 30×30 on the America the Stunning for All Coalition inaugural convention
By Jewel Tomasula, Coverage Advisor
With solely 5 years left to realize the nationwide and world purpose to preserve 30% of lands and waters by 2030 (“30×30”), the America the Stunning for All Coalition held its inaugural convention to debate high priorities for conservation justice in 2025 and past. The Endangered Species Coalition was concerned in planning the convention and main two breakout classes.
The “Fairness-centric Biodiversity Conservation Planning” session highlighted how unjust planning practices have formed biodiversity loss and mentioned how our motion should heart the wants of disenfranchised communities in participatory science and biodiversity restoration. Then, the session “Greater than Acres: Guaranteeing Efficient and Equitable Conservation Past 30×30 in Ocean and Coastal Stewardship” referred to as consideration to the necessity for administration plans, endangered species and clear water protections, and different instruments to make sure that designated protected areas assist the biodiversity that communities depend on.
All through the convention, folks spoke of defending lands and waters for the wildlife cherished by our communities and sacred to many cultures. We stay up for the brand new period of bringing the conservation and environmental justice actions along with the America the Stunning for All Coalition.
Endangered Species Coalition Member Group Spotlight
By Tara Thornton, Director of Institutional Engagement
ESC leads the grassroots motion to guard threatened and endangered species and to defend the Endangered Species Act. We consider energy is an plentiful useful resource that grows as it’s shared.
In every e-newsletter, we spotlight one among our over 400 member organizations and their unimaginable work to avoid wasting species and habitats
One among ESC’s latest member teams, Species Unite, is main the best way in lessening animal struggling and selling coexistence. Learn extra…
Colorado Border Buffer Zone
By Ryan Sedgeley, Southern Rockies Consultant
Wolves don’t perceive political boundaries. They should roam to make sure genetic range and to observe prey. Quickly, it’s doubtless that Colorado’s state-protected wolves discover their technique to Wyoming, the place they lack any safety. Final 12 months’s horrifying incident in Daniel, Wyoming, the place a younger feminine wolf was tortured and killed, illustrates the potential destiny for Colorado’s wolves that cross the state border.
That’s the reason the Endangered Species Coalition is looking for america Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Administration to ban the killing or harassment of grey wolves on their lands. Particularly we need to see these protections within the Drugs Bow Nationwide Forest and the land managed within the Rock Springs Discipline Workplace.
The companies have the facility to do that, and they need to. We hope you’ll be a part of us in calling for a protecting buffer zone for wolves in Wyoming alongside the northern border of Colorado.
Pollinator Protectors Case Research
By Jeanne Dodds, Artistic Engagement Director
We’re smitten by sharing 2024 Pollinator Protectors marketing campaign success tales with you. What does Pollinator Protectors do, and who advantages from this program? By way of Pollinator Protectors, ESC creates native habitat for pollinators and offers outreach and training experiences for communities. Pollinator Protectors allocates small grants for native plant materials and associated provides, enabling our companions to create habitat and supply academic occasions. These initiatives profit imperiled native pollinating species, native crops, and communities. Learn extra…
Endangered Species Coalition Leads in Conserving Washington Wolves Protected.
By John Rosapepe, Pacific Northwest Consultant
A seventeen-month combat to strip Washington State wolves of safety afforded beneath the state endangered species act was lastly defeated by a 5 to 4 vote on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Fee’s July assembly.
Endangered Species Coalition employees and our Washington State volunteers led the grassroots efforts in opposition to the Washington Division of Fish and Wildlife’s proposed downlisting of the wolf’s standing from endangered to delicate.
State safety for wolves is essential as wolves are solely protected within the western two-thirds of the state beneath the Endangered Species Act. Learn extra…
Artistic Engagement – Asserting Collaborating for Biodiversity
By Jeanne Dodds, Artistic Engagement Director
It’s by no means been extra essential for folks and communities to collaborate to make sure that our shared future is biodiverse. That’s why ESC has developed a brand new artistic alternative for youth grades Okay-12: Collaborating for Biodiversity. Constructing on the success of our 2023 Collaborating for Wildlife and Crops name to youth artists in honor of the fiftieth Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, we’re increasing with a brand new collaborative name to youth artists through the present tutorial 12 months.
Later this 12 months and in early 2025, we will likely be sending out updates about how educators and college students can be a part of the Collaborating for Biodiversity venture, together with alternatives for youth artists grades Okay-12 to collaboratively create artworks in a variety of media. The platform for paintings submissions will open in January and shut in April 2025. Collaborating for Biodiversity will heart species listed, proposed for itemizing, or recovered from the Endangered Species Act. We are going to emphasize the creation of artworks rising consciousness of the significance of biodiversity. Learn extra…
