Southwest Director, Center for Biological Diversity.
Action to protect imperiled species and wildlands in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah's Colorado Plateau.
📍 Colorado Plateau (to the Sierra Madre)
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org
Taylor McKinnon
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Now: The Center for Biological Diversity today expanded our Big Bend litigation to challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s action on Tuesday waiving dozens of environmental laws to build border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.
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Now: Tribal and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas to SpaceX.
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The Center for Biological Diversity sued two Interior Dept. agencies today for failing to protect endangered species and their streamside habitat from unauthorized cattle and grazing damage in southern Arizona’s Las Cienegas National Conservation Area.
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New photos here of damage from CBP blading a 50-foot-wide border wall road through the desert intaglio - a 1000-year-old, 272-foot-long fish carved into the desert floor along the U.S.-Mexico border. It aims south to the Gulf of California 45 miles away.
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The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to finalize Endangered Species Act protections for the Quitobaquito tryonia, a tiny springsnail found only in Quitobaquito Springs in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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An appeals court today rejected cattle growers' challenge to the Forest Service's removal of feral cattle from the Gila Wilderness. The Center had urged the dismissal. Three years cow-free, the Gila River's endangered species habitat is now recovering.
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A trail cam check on Monday revealed 3 clips of a beautiful male jaguar in a Sky Island south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham.
Jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by border wall, mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. @biologicaldiversity.org
How writing about #extinction is an inherently hopeful act. therevelator.org/why-i-write-...
My colleagues Calvin Farris (NPS) and Ellis Margolis (USGS) led a landmark study in paleofire reconstruction. In addition to showing that fire management can restore past fire regimes, the demonstrated methods are a first in dendrochronology. 1/6 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Freshwater mussels are living water filters that help keep rivers clean, clear and healthy.
We sued the USFWS this week for for failing to designate critical habitat for the endangered Texas hornshell, a freshwater mussel once common across the Rio Grande watershed in Texas and New Mexico. ⬇️
Taylor McKinnon
Taylor McKinnon
Taylor McKinnon
Taylor McKinnon
Taylor McKinnon
Taylor McKinnon
Center for Biological Diversity: BROWNSVILLE, Texas— Tribal and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande...
AJO, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity released new video footage and photographs today documenting recent damage from border wall construction to the Las Playas Intaglio, an ancient fish-sha...
EL PASO, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to designate critical habitat for the endangered Texas hornshell, a freshwater mussel once...
