Before you defend the SpaceX land swap, watch this

Protecting 715 acres of refuge land from SpaceX

June 27, 2026

Uriel Takes us to Front Lines of SpaceX Land Grab

More info on the closure of Alligator Allcatraz

What happened in the last few weeks?

Stop SpaceX's Land Grab

We are suing to protect 715 acres of Texas Wildlife Refuge Land from SpaceX

Support The Center for Biological Diversity

Protecting the Río Grande

Suing to Stop the SpaceX Land Grab

That's Wild: Bruce the Brave

Protecting Big Bend National Park

Protecting Big Bend National Park

The Center is back in court to ensure Alligator Alcatraz is shut down for good.

Help Us Ban M-44 Cyanide Bombs... Again

What happened this week??

The Center’s Laiken joined NPR’s Studio 1A today.

A Week at the Center

Protecting Florida Panthers from Exurban Development

Take Action to Protect the Tongass National Forest

Urgent Development: Alaska Bears

Why is Alaska going to kill bears across 40,000 square miles?

The Center for Saving Life on Earth

Give to the Org that's Fighting for Endangered Species Everyday

A Cameo by ‘Cinco’ the Jaguar

Save Alaska Bears from Aerial Gunning

Saving Florida Panthers

A reminder of why the Endangered Species Act is so important #wildlife

Protect Redwoods from Highway Expansion

Center for Biological Diversity Weekly News Roundup 10/10/2026

Alligator Alcatraz Updates Live with The Center's Florida and Caribbean Director, Elise Bennett.

Brown Bears in the Tongass National Forest

Trump's Border Wall in Big Bend National Park Must Be Stopped

Stop the Trump Administration's Border Wall through Big Bend National Park

The Center is under attack AGAIN.

Protect the Arctic from Gas and Oil Drillin

Remove Political Figures from National Park Passes

Bug Splats Reveal Insect Declines

The Buzz on Western Bumblebees

Get Up to Speed on the Extinction Crisis

Dangerous Waters for North Atlantic Right Whales

Vanishing Birds of North America

Help us defend Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

Help us defend Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

The Mountain Lion in Brett's Backyard

Protect the Pisgah Rally

Belugas and Polar Bears — Swimming Buddies?

Saving Diamondback Terrapins

Target Shooting in the Sonoran Desert National Monument

'Better than Idaho' Isn't Good Enough. Washington's Wolves Deserve a Real Future

Red Wolf Pups

American Burying Beetle Mural

The Importance of Horseshoe Crabs

CNN Interview With Jean Su

Bear Cub in the Snow

Wildlife Connectivity: Keeping Species Safe as They Roam the Wild (Session 1)

"Oh, The Gila River": Protect the Gila River for Us!

The Run to Save Oak Flat

Habitat-Fed Beef: Separating Facts From Fiction on Grass-Fed and ‘Regenerative' Beef

Bobcat Gobbles Burmese Python Eggs

There's growing concern among scientists and the public about the environmental cost of the Uni

Remembering the BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

Join Us: Learn About Birds This Earth Week

A Wild Gila River

Regenerative Grazing: Addressing the Colonial Roots of Cattle Ranching

Wildlife Connectivity Keeping Species Safe as They Roam the Wild (Session 2)

Baby black bear playing in snow

Saving Howlers, Jaguars and More From Pet Trade

Baby Leafcutter Bee Emerges from Their Cozy Bee-rito

Tiny, Rare Sand Cats in Sahara Desert Caught on Camera

Frogs who pollinate? That's wild!

Vaquitas Are Still Out There

Webinar: Holding New Mexico Accountable for Its Constitutional Duty to Protect the Environment

Saving Endangered Species from SpaceX

That's Wild: Rare Eel Gulps Itself Into Glory

That's Wild: Rare Footage of Baby Peacock Turtles

Suit Filed to Protect 20 Coral Species

That's Wild: These Sharpshooters Make Pee, Not War

A Border River Turned Deadly

The Endangered Species Act: 50 Years of Extraordinary Success

Dixie Valley Toads Win Final Protection

That's Wild: Octopus Females Chuck Shells at Males

That's Wild: Bats' Ventricular Folds of Mayhem

Wasps Fight Back With Spiky Genitalia

Good Riddance to Ducey's Junk Wall

"King of Sting," Dr. Justin Schmidt, hands child a scorpion

The Book of Extinction: Learn More About This New Partnership

Mexican Gray Wolves Back in the Wild

The Southwest Is Jaguar Country

That's Wild: Another Sex Trick … of Mussels

Feather Stars Freestyle Into the Hearts of Nautilus Live Scientists

Save Marine Mammals and Celebrate This Lifesaving Law

Snow Day for Wolves

Unauthorized Grazing at Agua Fria National Monument

#Fuzzbutts

A Simple Way to Save Diamondback Terrapins

Rare Mexican Spotted Owl Hunts Bats

Film Discussion: “The Condor & The Eagle”

Beaver Self-Care

Fighting Extinction in Nevada

Baby Elephants Don't Like Naps Either

Film Screening and Discussion: "8 Billion Angels"

Let's Keep Emperor Penguins On Ice

Film Screening and Discussion of Our Gorongosa

Take Action to Save Gray Wolves

Resistance and Extinction: A Conversation about Thoreau, Loss and Hope

Wolves Need the Endangered Species Act

To Kid or Not to Kid: Join Us for a Film and Discussion

Rally 'Round the River: Rise up for Snake River Salmon, Orcas and Communities

The Courtship Dance of the California Condor

This Sea Slug Self-Decapitates for Survival

There's a New Jaguar in Town

Cleaner Cars Now

Rio Tinto Plunders

Help Save Western Monarchs From Extinction

Creating a More Just Food System

#HotBearSummer

Biden Keep Your Promise

Biden, Keep Your Promise

California Pipeline Incidents 1986 to 2021

Wildlife of Los Angeles

Wildlife and City Lights

RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR WOLVES

Victories in Alaska

Remembering Lost Species

Meanwhile in Florida

SLOE: River's End Film Screening and Discussion

Rare Red Wolf Caught On Camera

Tell Congress to Support Healthy, Climate-Friendly School Food

People vs. Fossil Fuels: Washington, D.C., Oct. 11-15

Borderlands Mama and Baby Bear

Saving Life on Earth: Help Save Gray Wolves

Biden, Keep Your Promise (45 seconds)

Biden, Keep Your Promise (120 seconds)

This Beetle Walks on Water... Upside-Down

President Biden: Clean Cars Now

Exxon's Dangerous Oil Trucking Route

Senator Kelly: You Can Protect Oak Flat

Curious California Puma

Mama Coati and Coati Kittens

Leaping Lynx

Chimps Apply Insects to Wounds

That's Wild: Self-Amputation Saves Fly Lives

Saving Endangered Red Wolves

Protecting the Wild from the Trump Administration

Protecting the Wild from DOGE

Saving our National Forests

Best Practices in Plant-Based City Food Policy

Hands Off! 2025: Millions Protest Trump, Musk

That's Wild: Colossal Kid Squid

Watch These Adorable Kit Fox Kits

That's Wild: The Hannibal Lecter of Larvae

Watch California Mountain Lions Kittens Play

Protecting Florida's Black Bears

No One Wants This

Data Visualization: Florida Panther Car Mortality

Wildlife Crossings for Red Wolves

Saving Red Wolves

Protecting Redwoods from Highway Expansion

Saving the Monarch Butterfly

Joining an Organization You Can Trust to Protect the Wild

Protecting the Wolf

Protecting the Grand Canyon

Protecting the Permian Basin

Protecting the Wild from the Trump Administration

Protecting the Arctic

Fighting Deadly Air Pollution

The Return of West Coast Wolves

Protect the Tongass

We Just Sued to Protect Alaska's Bears

Alaska in Focus: Standing up for North America's Wildest Ecosystems

Help us fight this unlawful investigation against the Center

Border Wall Blasts

Shirleen's Epic Ocean Journey

You Raised $2,000,000 for Red Wolves!

You are Giving Hope to an Entire Species

Thank You for Standing With Us in 2025

Fighting for Gray Wolves

That's Wild: Tiny Cat Seen in Thailand After 30 Years

On the Brink: American Burying Beetle Recovery Efforts

Saving the Everglades: The Fight to Come

Protect Endangered Baby Sea Turtles

Protect Alaska Bears from Aerial Gunning

Save our Public Lands

Resisting the Loss of the "Roadless Rule"

Saving the Gulf from Oil Spills

Protecting Montana Wolves

Kierán Suckling: The Endangered Species Act

Fighting to Ban Atrazine

Stop the Everglades Ice Detention Center

Up close and personal with an ocelot

Fighting for Horseshoe Crab Mass Beach Orgies

Saving Wildlife from Extinction

Why I'm Marching to End Fossil Fuels

That's Wild: Cockatoo Rockers

NMLAWS: Defending Land, Air, Water, and the Sacred

That's Wild: Rediscovered Species of Mole Delights World

Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

Colorado Welcomes Five New Wolves

Rep. Norman Cheering On Bat Extinction

Celebrating 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act

Thanks for standing with the Center in 2023

That's Wild: Why Flying Froglets Impersonate Poop

Saving Bearing Sea Orcas

That's Wild: Humpback Whales Enjoy a Body Scrub

Help Save Wildlife From Mexico's Illegal Pet Trade (Excerpt from Unreported World)

Join the Movement to #EndFossilFuels

Get Ready to March on the U.N. Climate Summit (9/17/23, NYC)

GAO: Trump's Border Wall Hurts Wildlife, Ecosystems

That's Wild: The Birth of a Sperm Whale

We Said It Loud and Clear in NYC: End Fossil Fuels

Reflecting on the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon N.M.

Sea otter munching

Endangered Bees Need Help

Showdown for Wildlife Along the Texas Border (PBS news clip)

That's Wild: Cute Animals Creepy Secrets

Horseshoe Crabs Spared for Another Year of Orgies (2023)

Power transmission lines damaging sacred sites and San Pedro River

Power transmission lines damaging sacred sites and San Pedro River

Oak Flat from above

Year of last grizzly sighting in California by county

We Protect the Endangered Species that Need Help. #savingspecies

Only 25 Redwolves Left in the Wild! #conservationmatters

Defending New Mexico From Oil and Gas

If You Love Elephants

Ocelot Spotted in New Arizona Location

Bottom Trawling Devastating Arctic Seas

That's Wild: Marmoset Names

San Pedro River wildlife

Eastern Indigo Snake Slithering Through the Pines

Help Vanishing Wetlands and Their Wildlife

Meet The Center for Biological Diversity

Jean Su MSNBC Interview on FEMA Extreme Heat Petition

Webinar: Our Fight to Stop California Sprawl

That's Wild: Wormlike Amphibians Who Lactate?

Border Wall Saguaro Deaths

Saving Wilson's Phalaropes

That's Wild: Bedazzled Skunk Scat?

That's Wild: Meet the Kowari

Tohono O'odham Students Name Arizona's New Jaguar

Save the Okefenokee

Argentinian Scientist Tours U.S. Jaguar Habitat

How Ancient Horseshoe Crabs First Enter the World

Thank you for standing with us in 2024.

Wild Arizona Jaguar and Ocelot on Remote Camera

Tucson Stands with Standing Rock, November 15, 2016

It's a Rainblow!

The Endangered Axolotl

Stop the Griz Hunt in Wyoming

Bill Snape Speaks Out On Brett Kavanaugh

Sierra Newts Mating

Endangered Species Act Under Attack

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

Patagonia Puma

Meanwhile, Off the Coast of North Carolina...

The Seductive Chest Sac Swagger of the Greater Sage Grouse

Jaguarundi: The Obscure Borderlands Cat Few People Know

Meanwhile in Florida:

Getting through the tail end of this winter like

Vote today!

Florida softshell turtles: Aquatic Weirdo Savants

What is this googly-eyed critter?

Rattlesnake Den Gassing

Chimaera: Happy Halloween

Borderlands Bear Butt

Ringtails

Wolves, Bears and Bobcats in Michigan, Oh My!

Florida panthers, river otters and bears on remote cameras

Two Octopuses Square Off In A Shipwreck

Lion's mane nudibranch

San Pedro River

Bear Mother and Cubs in a Food Coma Cuddle Puddle

Father and son monitoring wildlife in Arizona

The Dugong Dougie

Millions of Monarch Butterflies

First 20 Miles of Trump's New Wall

Endangered Species Mural #20 in Yuma, Ariz.

Bison, Jaguars, and the Border

A Wall By Any Other Name

Dragoon Mountains in Snow

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#BorderViews: Wolf Crossing The Border

Trump Admin Approves Mine in Jaguar Habitat

Meanwhile in Florida...panthers, gators and bears using wildlife crossings

Ya'll Ain't Ready for Lil' Jawz

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on Saving Endangered Plants

Togo pack male and pups

A Monarch Caterpillar's First Meal

September 8th March In San Francisco

Newell's Shearwater Release

Beavers climb trees better than potatoes

Protection for the Candy Darter and Habitat

Coyote in the Sonoran Desert

I CAN HAZ UR FACE OFF

Una de las escuelas más verdes en América

One of the Greenest Schools in America

Border Views: Not Our Values

Watch This Borderlands Black Bear Grow Up On Remote Cameras

The Fascinating and Endangered Sex Lives of Freshwater Mussels

The Wall In The Wild: The U.S./ Mexico Border Wall

Nudi by Nature Nudibranch Diversity

Back Into the Wild: Compilation of Wildlife Releases

Behold the Robin of the Sea

This Tick Could Make You Allergic to Meat

Cockatoos Play the Drums to Attract Ladies

Relay Walkthrough Video

Borderlands Critter Cams

Jaguar Named "Sombra" in Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona

Straight Outta Habitat: San Gabriel Chestnut Snail

The Earth2Trump Tour Is Back

Damselflies Are Not Dragonflies

Sonoran Gopher Snake On a Vertical Egg Hunt

Fight Trump, Save the Arctic

Hiaki High School Students Name a Jaguar in Arizona

Mount Graham Red Squirrel

How are butterflies surviving the massive Australian fires?

Día de César Chávez

Cesar Chavez Day

The Rare Desert Orchid: Coleman's Coralroot

Tucson People's Climate March

Arizona Has Giant Haboobs

Cute Coho Salmon Hatching

The Great Clam Escape

Funky American Woodcock

North America's Largest Land Mollusk

Butterfllies Feasting on Scat

Bald Eagles Are Good Parenting Partners

Desert Bighorn Sheep Adapt and Chill

Native Bee Diversity in North America

Trumpapillar

The Trump Resistance Tour is Coming to a City Near You

Power to the Pika!

The Real Lives of Reindeer

This Thanksgiving Give Thanks to Standing Rock

Rare Yosemite Falls Rainbow

Borderlands Bears

Petey Mesquitey performs "Im a Borderland Jaguar" 10/18/17 at Sky Bar in Tucson, Ariz.

Ryan Zinke Confronted at Grand Canyon National Park

Rare six gilled stingray

Ignite Change: Stand With Lands

Float Like a Dragontail Butterfly...

The Language of Prairie Dogs

AZ Trophy Hunting Ban Petition

LA County Resolution Webinar

Multnomah County Webinar: How to Pass a Resolution Against Offshore Drilling

Sea Cuke Poo to the Rescue

Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died

Cliff swallows: Avian Master Architects & Guerilla Moms

California Needs Wildlife Crossings

Wolf Lick

This Giant Water Bug May Be the World's Greatest Dad

Saving Life On Earth: The Fossil Fuel Industry is Building Plastic Factories

Stop Formosa Plastics

Long Mountain

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on the Future of Climate Activism

Skunk Handstand

Interview with Maxine Trump, Director of To Kid or Not to Kid

This Bird Song Went Viral

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on Contraception, Consumption and Conservation

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of the Borderlands

Behold Endangered Blanding's Turtle Hatchlings

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion on Justice, Race, Solidarity and the Environment

BorderViews #52: Trump's Border Wall Threatens Arizona Trail

Trio of Bear Cubs

Saving Life on Earth April 16

BorderView: Jaguar Corridor in the Crosshairs

Victory for California's Mountain Lions

Saving Half the Earth: An Earth Day Discussion

Demand Action on Plastic Pollution by Fossil Fuel Companies

A Discussion of Two of the West's Toughest Predators

Report from the Border: Blasting Granite

Saving Life On Earth Wolves in the West

Saving Life on Earth: Meat Production and the Extinction Crisis

Saving Life on Earth: Eating to Save the Planet

California Condor Cools Off in a Creek

Wild & Weird: One of World's Rarest Snails Lives in the Desert

Mother Bear and Rambunctious Cub Wrestle and Bathe

Emergency: The Future of Wolf Protection

Saving Life on Earth: Film Screening and Discussion - The Bees of Grand Staircase Escalante

Manatee mortalities

No Radioactive Roads in the U.S.A.

Climate Reality Check

#NotAnotherFoot of the Border Wall

Sandhill Cranes in New Mexico

Tell U.S. Forest Service: Leave These Ancient Trees Alone

Jaguars vs. the Border Wall

Saving Life on Earth: Defending Scary Creatues from Frightening Attacks

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of Africa's Imperiled Wildlife

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion on Protecting People and Wildlife from Pesticides

Tree-climbing canids in the borderlands of Arizona!

Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on Saving Monarchs and Other Insects

Wild & Weird: How Leopard Slugs Mate

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of Sea Turtles

Wild & Weird: National Weather Service Detects Massive Eruption of Bats in Phoenix

Saving Life on Earth: Success Stories and Strategies

The Face of Wildlife Trade In the U.S.

Saving Life on Earth: Carnivores in the Crosshairs

Will the Host Please Mute Mr. Snapper

Saving Life on Earth: A Discussion of Mountain Lions and Wildlife Crossings

A River's Plight: Join Us for a Film and Discussion

Bobat Mom Teaches Her Kitten to Jump

Laiken Wildlife Refuge Video

BorderViews: Jaguar Country

We're fighting to save giraffes from extinction

The Mega Malabar Tree Nymph

How Road Barriers Killed Two Young California Cougars

The Lake Titicaca Water Frog

The future of America's wolves is being decided now

Don't Let Big Plastic Trash our Oceans

BorderViews: Imminent Border Wall Construction in National Park Lands in Arizona

What do Kangaroos do when it snows?

Delightfully tiny Florida key deer could lose their federal protection

How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands

One of the World's Rarest Flowers

This wildlife crossing reduced vehicle collisions by 85 percent

The Great Garbage Patch

"Don't Shoot" -- Esperanza Spalding Speaks Up to Save America's Wolves

Endangered Cat Herding in Florida

Rare Footage of Mountain Lion Creating Tinder Profile

We're Taking Trump to Court to Save Emperor Penguins

We Delivered Almost 1 Million Comments to Save America's Wolves

Zoom into a Blue Morpho Butterfly Wing

What does a fever of cownose rays look like?

Trump's Border Wall is Devastating to Wildlife

Trump's border wall will devastate the San Pedro River

Roll up to the club like what up, millipede stampede

Endangered Species Mural Project: Seward, Alaska

Palmyra Atoll

Valentine's Day for Bobcats

BorderViews: Sonoyta Mud Turtle

Dancing Frogs In The Western Ghats

Bat Snack

Javelinas in the Arizona Borderlands: Remote Wildlife Cameras

Mazama Pocket Gopher

BFFs: Gray Fox and Western Spotted Skunk

Florida Wildlife

Jaguar Habitat

Frogsicle

American White Pelicans Hitch River Ride on a Log

BorderViews: San Pedro River Wildlife

This is a Tardigrade

Borderviews: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

The Call of the Pika

This is a fight for all life on Earth

Border Patrol Destroying Endangered Species Habitat

BorderViews: A Poem About Border Militarization

Quitobaquito Pupfish: Tough, Tiny Fish on the Border

BorderViews: Nellie Jo David, Hia-Ced O'odham Activist

People vs. Plastic

The Urgent Need to #StopFormosa

Beyond Climate Denial: Exposing Fossil Fuel Industry Tactics

Why is biodiversity important - with Sir David Attenborough | The Royal Society

Wildlife Crossings for Red Wolves

Saving Endangered Red Wolves

Saving Wildlife from Extinction

Protecting the Arctic

Data Visualization: Florida Panther Car Mortality

No One Wants This

Saving our National Forests

Protecting the Wild from DOGE

Protecting the Wild from the Trump Administration

That's Wild: Colossal Kid Squid

Watch These Adorable Kit Fox Kits

Watch California Mountain Lions Kittens Play

Fighting Deadly Air Pollution

Protecting Florida's Black Bears

The Return of West Coast Wolves

Protect the Tongass

What's Happening at COP15?

Moving An Elephant Is NOT As Easy As 1-2-3 | Defenders of the Wild | EarthX

Indigenous Youth Leading Solutions for Climate Justice, UNPFII 2024

The Book of Extinction: Learn More About This New Partnership

There's growing concern among scientists and the public about the environmental cost of the Uni

Help Vanishing Wetlands and Their Wildlife

Saving Wilson's Phalaropes

Why biodiversity matters | The Circular Economy Show

Economics for a thriving planet | RSA Events

Jaguar Habitat

The Call of the Pika

Greenpeace: 6 steps to protect forests and biodiversity

Bird Versus Wind Turbines by New York Times

COWSPIRACY - Official Trailer - HD

United Nations Decade on Biodiversity - Interactive webcast

Orangutan SOS: Save Armstrong

Introduction to the Ecological Mangrove Restoration (EMR) method and an outline of the project ob

Biodiversity Conservation by Thomas Lovejoy

Tracking Global Biodiversity by Ben Collen

Biodiversity and Global Change by Katrin Boehning-Gaese

Leopold Education Project

Einstein once predicted that the human race would survive no more then 4 years after the extin

Queen of the Sun: What are Bees Telling Us?

Shorebirds deserve protection from SpaceX launches.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Guts Endangered Species Habitat Protections.