Just as nature inspires art, art inspires actions to defend wild places and the wild creatures that live in them. With this in mind, the Center for Biological Diversity's Endangered Species Mural ...

Pesticides and Soil Health The Center's Study on How Pesticides Harm Insects and Underground Ecosystems The 2021 peer-reviewed study Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment shows that ...

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 ...

Deadly Dining: Food waste attracts bears and other wildlife, which often has lethal consequences. The more we throw out, the more wild animals come to rely on the buffet of edible food in our trash ...

CYANIDE BOMBS Stopping M-44s From Killing American Wildlife For the past century a federal program called Wildlife Services, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has been slaughtering wildlife ...

AT WHAT COST? UNRAVELLING THE HARMS OF THE FAST FASHION INDUSTRY Executive Summary Fast fashion is an enormous, rapidly growing industry, with the number of new garments made per year nearly doubling ...

Mountaintop removal destroys lives and communities. Citizens living in mining areas say it's like being in a war zone. Blasts shake houses, crack windows and foundations, ruin wells, send boulders ...

FIRE AND FOREST MANAGEMENT The vast majority of western dry forests are at risk of large, high-intensity fire because of the effects of poor forest management over the past century. The primary ...

We wage innovative legal and grassroots campaigns to protect people, wildlife and ecosystems from climate change and the dirty and dangerous fossil fuel industry. We work to eliminate greenhouse ...

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 ...

Native Bees The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in ...

NATURAL HISTORY ANDEAN FLAMINGO } Phoenicoparrus andinus FAMILY: Phoenicopteridae DESCRIPTION: The Andean flamingo is both the most rare and tallest of all six species of flamingo. It has a ...