Wildlife Protection

BLOG: Pesticides: Persistent Threat to Birds, Bees and Humans

by Peter Jenkins | February 25, 2020
With roughly 40 percent of insect life threatened with extinction over the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to gamble by keeping powerful insecticides that Europe has banned, registered in the United States ...

Even Bureaucracies Taking on Trumpian Tone

by Susan Sargent | February 12, 2020
Press Release on Migratory Bird Kill Rule Resembles a Campaign Screed ...

Florida Panthers Spiral Toward Extinction

by Susan Sargent | January 9, 2020
Net Loss of More than 100 Cats in Last Five Years as Births Plunge ...

BLOG: EPA Continues to Approve Bee-Killing Insecticides

by Peter Jenkins | January 8, 2020
With over 40 percent of insect life threatened with extinction, the EPA continues to issue emergency exemptions to toxic pollinator-killing insecticides ...

Record Florida Manatee Boat Kills in 2019

by Susan Sargent | December 30, 2019
Annual Death Toll Reaches Third Highest; Tops Five-Year Average ...

PEER Hosts Congressional Briefing on Toxic Pesticides

by Susan Sargent | October 14, 2019
Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Nydia Velázquez join agricultural and health experts and environmental advocates for congressional briefing on toxic pesticides ...
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