Litigation Docket July 2009 WildEarth Guardians protects and restores wildlife, wild places, and wild rivers in the American West. Our four programs use a potent combination of scientific analysis, litigation, and grassroots organizing to protect the beauty and biodiversity of natural landscapes. This is a summary of WildEarth Guardians’ more than 35 lawsuits currently defending the American West’s rivers, forests, deserts, grasslands, and the delicate web of life to which we are inextricably linked. For a comprehensive list of cases including assigned attorneys contact lcolt@wildearthguardians.org Wildlife (21 cases) Litigating for the Southwest’s Lobo WildEarth Guardians is leading legal efforts to prevent the Mexican gray wolf from becoming extinct in the wild for the second time. We’re the only organization to have challenged a renegade New Mexico county’s efforts to stalk and trap Mexican gray wolves in the wild. In a separate lawsuit, we’ve targeted government land and wildlife policies that elevate public lands ranching above wolf conservation and are responsible for the dismal current population of 50 wild wolves and just two breeding pairs. These two legal challenges will help to ensure that the lobo eventually has the freedom to roam throughout the southwest. Jaguarundi Justice Nearly 30 years after the jaguarundi was listed under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has yet to develop a specific recovery plan to ensure the jaguarundi’s bounce back from the brink of extinction. This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to properly plan for the jaguarundi’s recovery, and will help to encourage protection of the elusive cat’s habitat along the borderlands of Arizona and Texas. Securing the Icons of the Sagebrush Sea: Western Grouse Photos.com ries of different lawsuits that challenge Bush administration policies, we’re working to protection under the Endangered Species Act for the Gunnison sage-grouse, the Mono age-grouse, and the Columbia sharp-tailed grouse. WildEarth Guardians and co-plaintiffs uccessfully required the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider anew the need for ting the critically imperiled Mono basin sage-grouse by February 2010. Likewise, we are pursuing a review of Bush administration decisions for the Gunnison sage-grouse and Columbian sharp-tailed grouse so these iconic species can finally receive the protection they need to survive.
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