Taxonomy Archives: Land and Wildlife

Mobile Baykeeper, SELC sue Alabama Power to stop coal ash pollution in the delta

The once-endangered snail darter is now a Southern success story

Here’s how you can help protect endangered right whales now.

Conservation groups win lawsuit challenging elimination of critical North Carolina protections for sea turtles and fish

SELC statement on proposed gas tax suspension

These should be the leading priorities for new US Fish and Wildlife Director

SELC statement on U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s revised proposed rule to downlist red-cockaded woodpecker

ATLANTA, Ga. — Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a revised proposal to reclassify the red-cockaded woodpecker. In response to the announcement, SELC Staff Attorney Ramona McGee releas...

Conservation groups intervene in permit case to protect Tennessee’s Duck River from unchecked water withdrawals

MARSHALL COUNTY, Tenn. — Represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, The Nature Conservancy and Tennessee Wildlife Federation are intervening in a permitting case to support the state’s effo...

State-sanctioned horseshoe crab confinement threatens shorebirds

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A group of conservationists is preparing to sue the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Charles River Laboratories for penning horseshoe crabs in manmade ponds for an...

SELC statement on repeal of narrowed habitat protections under the Endangered Species Act

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Today the Biden administration announced its proposal to rescind the Trump administration’s narrowed definition of ‘habitat’ under the Endangered Species Act.