WildEarth Guardians

10/16/2026

We must stop drilling the Permian past the threshold of climate disaster.

Conservation groups filed a formal protest with the federal land agency over proposed drilling plans in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

10/15/2026

We went to court for wolves earlier this week because wolves ARE essential.

Ever since their reintroduction in the late 90s, wild Mexican wolves – a rare subspecies of gray wolf in the Southwest - have been labeled “nonessential” to the species’ overall survival by the federal government.

10/14/2026

[Legal Update] Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments whether endangered Mexican gray wolves living in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico are considered “essential” to the survival of the species.

“The notion that the only wild population of Mexican wolves is not essential to the species’ survival and recovery is totally nonsensical,” said Chris Smith, wildlife and wild places program director for WildEarth Guardians.

Conservationists argue that the only wild population of lobos is essential to the species’ survival

10/14/2026

The flaring, the rancid air, the drought, the missing wildlife: this is life in the Permian Basin oilfields.

“We need air monitoring here in Loving,” says Jackie Onsurez. “We need more people regulating the oil and gas industry.”

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Decades of oil and gas production have transformed communities along the Pecos River. Attitudes have changed, too.

10/14/2026

The story of Flor is another inspiring instance of a lobo crossing, roaming, and moving hundreds of miles in a relatively uninterrupted corridor. Wolves belong. Border walls don't.

The wolf, named Flor, had been relocated to Mexico earlier this year, but returned to New Mexico last week.

10/11/2026

Fight back against Endangered Species Act rollbacks! Tell your Representative to vote “YES” on H.R. 9901 and keep habitat protections in place for endangered plants and wildlife to survive.

The Trump administration’s new “harm” rule strips away vital safeguards in the ESA and greenlights unchecked destruction by commercial interests. From clear-cutting old-growth forests to drilling in vital sagebrush seas, the consequences could be catastrophic.

Act now to stop the dangerous “harm” rule rollback ➡️ https://action.wildearthguardians.org/page/103466/action/1?ea.tracking.id=social-media

10/10/2026

This week, we'll be in court fighting for wolves. We're fighting for lobos on the border, gray wolves persecuted by hostile state management, and the science that tell us wolves are keystone predators that need continued protections if they are to recover in their native habitats across the continent.

Stay tuned, wolf guardians.

10/10/2026

🚨TAKE ACTION BY OCTOBER 13

The Permian Basin is already in crisis. The Bureau of Land Management wants to drill it harder. BLM wants 20,000 more wells in the Permian. Add your name to Guardians’ protest of a plan for more drilling, pollution, and toxic waste.

Our new report, Drilling Past Disaster, documents how BLM’s plan would add more waste to the pollution already burdening southeast New Mexico. We need your voice to make it loud and clear to the BLM: STOP drilling past disaster.

Submit here: https://action.wildearthguardians.org/page/103566/action/1?ea.tracking.id=social-media

10/09/2026

🚨TAKE ACTION BY OCTOBER 13

The Permian Basin is already in crisis. The Bureau of Land Management wants to drill it harder. BLM wants 20,000 more wells in the Permian. Add your name to Guardians’ protest of a plan for more drilling, pollution, and toxic waste.

Our new report, Drilling Past Disaster, documents how BLM’s plan would add more waste to the pollution already burdening southeast New Mexico. We need your voice to make it loud and clear to the BLM: STOP drilling past disaster.

Submit here:

The Permian Basin is already in crisis. The Bureau of Land Management wants to drill it harder. WildEarth Guardians is filing a formal protest, and we want to submit your opposition with ours before the October 13 deadline. Add your name!

10/08/2026

Flor, and those brave border-crossing lobos who preceded him, demonstrate the critical need for big connected, protected landscapes for iconic, native wildlife. We need to stop imposing our human-centered agendas on wildlife and let lobos roam.

📸: Fundación Tonkawa/Tonkawa Foundation.

https://wildearthguardians.org/press-releases/another-mexican-gray-wolf-crosses-u-s-mexico-border/