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==Programs== |
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Climate and Energy |
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The goal of the <ref>Climate and Energy program[http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=programs_climate_energy ]</ref> is reform that prioritizes energy efficiency and conservation, phases out fossil fuels, and embraces environmentally appropriate clean power sources. WildEarth Guardians activities are focused toward meeting the goal of returning to 350 parts per million. They are committed to a 10% reduction in greenhouse gases every year through incentives, policy reforms favoring distributed electricity generation, an emphasis on conservation and efficiency, a move to sustainable communities, and promoting responsible renewable energy development. Using litigation, science, public outreach and organizing, the media, and lobbying, they are making progress. Together, these campaigns represent WildEarth Guardians’ unique “cover all bases” approach to tackling the climate crisis here in the American West. |
The goal of the Climate and Energy program <ref>Climate and Energy program[http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=programs_climate_energy ]</ref> is reform that prioritizes energy efficiency and conservation, phases out fossil fuels, and embraces environmentally appropriate clean power sources. WildEarth Guardians activities are focused toward meeting the goal of returning to 350 parts per million. They are committed to a 10% reduction in greenhouse gases every year through incentives, policy reforms favoring distributed electricity generation, an emphasis on conservation and efficiency, a move to sustainable communities, and promoting responsible renewable energy development. Using litigation, science, public outreach and organizing, the media, and lobbying, they are making progress. Together, these campaigns represent WildEarth Guardians’ unique “cover all bases” approach to tackling the climate crisis here in the American West. |
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Wildlife |
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WildEarth Guardians works to protect the vast spectrum of native species because they have an inherent right to exist. The American West hosts a dazzling array of native wildlife and plants, from the mighty black bear and grey wolf, to tiny caddisflies, springsnails, and irises. The diversity of life in the region is a product of varied topography and a multitude of ecological niches that these native species call home. WildEarth Guardians, like most people, value wildlife, wild lands, and naturally functioning systems. They work to preserve that tapestry, rather than let it unravel. A cornerstone of WildEarth Guardian's Wildlife Program is advocacy for endangered animals and plants. The best way to pull them back from the brink is to obtain their formal listing under the <ref>Endangered Species Act[http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_ESA_listing&AddInterest=1262]</ref>. Listing species under this law is a top priority because this law is so effective at preventing extinction but the majority of imperiled species in the United States are not yet listed under it. WildEarth Guardians also work to protect and restore native carnivores in their native home. Their <ref>mountain lion project[http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_carnivore_protection&AddInterest=1382]</ref> has resulted in the states of Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico adopting hunter education programs designed to protect breeding females and their dependent kittens. The centerpiece of their work to confront wildlife persecution is their campaign to End the Federal <ref>War on Wildlife[ http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_war_wildlife]</ref>. They aim to abolish the euphemistically named “Wildlife Services,” a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that annually kills millions of animals each year, using a macabre toolkit of weapons. They work to reform backwards policies and practices, whether perpetrated by the federal Wildlife Services or those allowed by state wildlife agencies beholden to special interests. At the local level, WildEarth Guardians promote living with wildlife rather than intolerance against the wildlife species that live in our midst. |
WildEarth Guardians works to protect the vast spectrum of native species because they have an inherent right to exist. The American West hosts a dazzling array of native wildlife and plants, from the mighty black bear and grey wolf, to tiny caddisflies, springsnails, and irises. The diversity of life in the region is a product of varied topography and a multitude of ecological niches that these native species call home. WildEarth Guardians, like most people, value wildlife, wild lands, and naturally functioning systems. They work to preserve that tapestry, rather than let it unravel. A cornerstone of WildEarth Guardian's Wildlife Program is advocacy for endangered animals and plants. The best way to pull them back from the brink is to obtain their formal listing under the Endangered Species Act <ref>Endangered Species Act[http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_ESA_listing&AddInterest=1262]</ref>. Listing species under this law is a top priority because this law is so effective at preventing extinction but the majority of imperiled species in the United States are not yet listed under it. WildEarth Guardians also work to protect and restore native carnivores in their native home. Their mountain lion project <ref>mountain lion project[http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_carnivore_protection&AddInterest=1382]</ref> has resulted in the states of Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico adopting hunter education programs designed to protect breeding females and their dependent kittens. The centerpiece of their work to confront wildlife persecution is their campaign to End the Federal War on Wildlife <ref>War on Wildlife[ http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_war_wildlife]</ref>. They aim to abolish the euphemistically named “Wildlife Services,” a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that annually kills millions of animals each year, using a macabre toolkit of weapons. They work to reform backwards policies and practices, whether perpetrated by the federal Wildlife Services or those allowed by state wildlife agencies beholden to special interests. At the local level, WildEarth Guardians promote living with wildlife rather than intolerance against the wildlife species that live in our midst. |
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==Notes== |
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Revision as of 22:17, 7 June 2012
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WildEarth Guardians is a non-profit environmental organization, with offices in Santa Fe NM, Denver CO, and Tucson AZ. Founded as Forest Guardians in 1989, the original mission of the grassroots effort was to fight a logging project on northern New Mexico’s Elk Mountain. As the evidence of environmental threats continued, the efforts of the Guardians expanded. The organization began to take on public lands livestock grazing industry. Seeing the devastation that cattle wreak on the southwest’s precious waterways, the organization launched a campaign to out-compete public lands ranchers for leases. In 1996, when a decade-long drought began in New Mexico and more than 10,000 Rio Grande silvery minnows died because the Rio Grande went completely dry for 60 miles, the organization took on river issues and began a campaign to advocate for water policy reform. Though focused on endangered species issues from the beginning because of the inextricable link between the endangered Mexican spotted owl and its threatened forest home, the Guardians launched an official endangered species program in 2001 to address the growing biodiversity crisis. In 2007, the Guardians formed a Climate and Energy program because the American West had become ground zero for new fossil fuel extraction and oil, and gas development on public lands significantly threatens wildlife and wild places. In 2008, Forest Guardians merged with a carnivore protection non-profit, Sinapu, from Boulder, CO and became WildEarth Guardians. Though they have significantly expanded their scope over the years, the core mission to confront the threats facing the beauty and diversity of the American West has not changed. [1]
WildEarth Guardians has an in-house legal team that works closely with the program directors to reform policy and uphold environmental laws. In addition, the program directors use public awareness campaigns and political pressure to protect wildlife, wild places, and wild rivers. The current Executive Director of WildEarth Guardians is John Horning of Santa Fe.
Mission statement
"WildEarth Guardians works to protect and restore wildlife, wild places and wild rivers in the American West."[2]
Programs
Climate and Energy
The goal of the Climate and Energy program [3] is reform that prioritizes energy efficiency and conservation, phases out fossil fuels, and embraces environmentally appropriate clean power sources. WildEarth Guardians activities are focused toward meeting the goal of returning to 350 parts per million. They are committed to a 10% reduction in greenhouse gases every year through incentives, policy reforms favoring distributed electricity generation, an emphasis on conservation and efficiency, a move to sustainable communities, and promoting responsible renewable energy development. Using litigation, science, public outreach and organizing, the media, and lobbying, they are making progress. Together, these campaigns represent WildEarth Guardians’ unique “cover all bases” approach to tackling the climate crisis here in the American West. Wildlife
WildEarth Guardians works to protect the vast spectrum of native species because they have an inherent right to exist. The American West hosts a dazzling array of native wildlife and plants, from the mighty black bear and grey wolf, to tiny caddisflies, springsnails, and irises. The diversity of life in the region is a product of varied topography and a multitude of ecological niches that these native species call home. WildEarth Guardians, like most people, value wildlife, wild lands, and naturally functioning systems. They work to preserve that tapestry, rather than let it unravel. A cornerstone of WildEarth Guardian's Wildlife Program is advocacy for endangered animals and plants. The best way to pull them back from the brink is to obtain their formal listing under the Endangered Species Act [4]. Listing species under this law is a top priority because this law is so effective at preventing extinction but the majority of imperiled species in the United States are not yet listed under it. WildEarth Guardians also work to protect and restore native carnivores in their native home. Their mountain lion project [5] has resulted in the states of Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico adopting hunter education programs designed to protect breeding females and their dependent kittens. The centerpiece of their work to confront wildlife persecution is their campaign to End the Federal War on Wildlife [6]. They aim to abolish the euphemistically named “Wildlife Services,” a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that annually kills millions of animals each year, using a macabre toolkit of weapons. They work to reform backwards policies and practices, whether perpetrated by the federal Wildlife Services or those allowed by state wildlife agencies beholden to special interests. At the local level, WildEarth Guardians promote living with wildlife rather than intolerance against the wildlife species that live in our midst.
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External links
- WildEarth Guardians Home Page
- Newspaper Article about a lawsuit Forest Guardians filed with Sinapu to prevent recreational trapping.[dead link]
- PDF of the filed complaint in the lawsuit with Sinapu against recreational trapping.
- Newspaper Article about a lawsuit Forest Guardians was involved with fighting for the protection of the Gunnison's Prairie Dog
- Newspaper Article about a lawsuit that Forest Guardians filed against the US Forest Service for jeopardizing the endangered Mexican spotted owl through poor grazing management.
- www.fguardians.org about a petition that Nicole issued to get 475 threatened south west species onto the Endangered Species Act
- New Mexico Biomass for a critical perspective on the Forest Guardians stance on alternative energy and wildfires.