The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

12 Ways to Live More Sustainably. Every day we make choices in our lives that affect the environment, the climate and other species. From what we eat to how many children we decide to have, there’s a lot we can do to “choose wild” and reduce our environmental footprint to leave more room for wild animals and plants.

For every county in the United States, the map below shows information on all the animals and plants protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered. To see the number of federally protected species in a given county, zoom in on the map until the county boundaries appear ...

Fast fashion is an enormous, rapidly growing industry, with the number of new garments made per year nearly doubling over the past 20 years and global consumption of fashion increasing by 400%. Waste occurs at every stage of the garment manufacturing process, harming wildlife, degrading land, and ...

Collette Adkins, Carnivore Conservation Director, Senior Attorney. Collette (she/her) leads the Carnivore Conservation program, where she focuses on combating exploitation and cruel treatment of wolves and other rare wildlife.Collette received her law degree from the University of Minnesota, where she also earned a master's degree in wildlife conservation.

The lands surrounding our international borders contain spectacular landscapes and crucial habitats, from the vast expanses of desert along the U.S.-Mexico border to the snow-covered mountains near our border with Canada. Unfortunately, imperiled border habitats and species aren’t always given the ...

It's time to get at the root of this ocean crisis.The Center has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating plastics as a pollutant and is working to stop plastic pollution at the source, before it ever has a chance to reach the ocean.. THE PLASTIC PROBLEM. We're surrounded by plastic. It’s in the single-use packaging we discard, the consumer goods that fill our ...

Action for endangered species underpins all the Center's programs. Our work has secured protections for more than 720 species and more than half a billion acres of wildlife habitat.

SONORAN DESERT. The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse of the four U.S. deserts. Covering 120,000 square miles of southwestern Arizona, southeastern California, and the Mexican states of Baja and Sonora, its mountains, rivers, and canyons provide luxurious habitat for numerous unique species specially adapted for heat, aridity, and intense summer monsoons.

The measurement of biodiversity is complex and has a qualitative as well as a quantitative aspect. If a species is genetically unique — if, for instance, it's far out on a remote arm of the evolutionary tree, like the distinctive, peculiar platypus — its biodiversity value is greater than that of a species clustered with many similar species because it preserves a unique part of the ...