The Defenders of Wildlife have a trust fund which compensates (at full market value) any rancher who loses livestock.
To compensate livestock owners for any livestock lost to wolves, the Defenders of Wildlife has a Wolf Compensation Trust Fund.
According to the poll commissioned by Defenders of Wildlife in November, 56 percent of Alaskans oppose the same-day-air hunting of wolves.
"Let's not let the Farm Bureau ruin a good thing, " said Bob Ferris, Species Conservation Director for the Defenders of Wildlife.
For more information, contact Ken Goldman, Defenders of Wildlife, (202)682-9400, ext. 237.
Defenders of Wildlife, which rejected a lawsuit by environmentalists who claimed their injury was the possibility of not being able to observe wildlife in the future.
But Jamie Rappaport Clark, president of Defenders of Wildlife, called it "a tragic ending to what has otherwise been one of America's greatest wildlife conservation success stories".
Defenders of Wildlife announced Thursday it strongly opposes the bill.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club had also sued Kern County last October over its green-lighting of the 300-megawatt North Sky River project.
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In 1997 the services jointly withdrew a proposed rule to list Atlantic salmon in seven Maine rivers under the Endangered Species Act, resulting in a lawsuit led by the Defenders of Wildlife.
In one example among many, the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit challenging a 100-turbine wind development in mountains north of the Mojave Desert.
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It is disturbing yet not all that surprising that the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have unreasonably chosen to prioritize jaguar populations over millions of Americans who remain targets of terrorism.
"In 1996 and again in late 1998, Alaskan voters made it clear that they don't want their wolves to be killed by same-day-air hunting, " Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen said in a statement.
Defenders of Wildlife, the environmental group that led the effort to restrict airborne wolf hunting, released a poll Feb. 18 that shows 70 percent of Alaskan voters oppose any effort to repeal the ban.
In 2012, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Defenders of Wildlife also filed suit to stop another 663 megawatt 4, 600-acre Calico solar plant to be built on 7.2 square miles in the Mohave Desert northeast of Los Angeles.
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Arguing at Thursday's hearing that the reintroduction program has been successful and is legal, legitimate and necessary, Brian O'Neill represented the plaintiffs, which include the Defenders of Wildlife, the National Wildlife Federation and its Wyoming and Idaho affiliates, and the National Audubon Society.
"While Defenders has always recognized that professional control of wolves that prey on livestock is a necessary evil, allowing random, non-selective take through public hunting and trapping is a poor wildlife management decision, " warned Nina Fascione, Defenders of Wildlife associate director of species conservation.
For example, no Democratic leader demanded the IRS investigate the 501(c)(4) arms of the League of Conservation Voters, National Abortion Rights Act League, VoteVets, NAACP, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club and other liberal organizations that have spent millions excoriating Republicans, pushing liberal issues and registering voters.
Environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife apparently are not bothered by the security risks that such a porous border creates at least not enough to restrain themselves from filing a lawsuit to prevent the DHS from doing the job that Congress is requiring it to do.
Environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife apparently are not bothered by the security risks that such a porous border creates -- at least not enough to restrain themselves from filing a lawsuit to prevent the DHS from doing the job that Congress is requiring it to do.
In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.
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The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act -- again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction -- eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
Next, ask students to assume the roles of wildlife defenders and pose this scenario: You have been asked to testify before a special United Nations committee on wildlife protection.
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