Defenders
They are dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
Who is Defenders of Wildlife?
Returns protections to endangered species that were recently rescinded.
What is the PAW and FIN Act?
There is a ballot measure to reintroduce this animal back into the Rocky Mountains. They have already been reintroduced in Yellowstone.
What are gray wolves?
It is the most effective tool in stopping extinction.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This involves gathering signatures from registered voters.
What is petitioning?
Human development is filling prime valley bottom wildlife habitat and the places where our towns border wildlands are primary sources of conflict between people and wildlife in this area.
Where is the Rocky Mountains?
A part of Congress whose number of delegates depends on state size.
What is the House of Representatives?
This animal is in the cat family, and also happens to be the CU Denver mascot!
What is a lynx?
This percentage of American voters support upholding the ESA, which has been consistent over the years.
What is 90%.
This involves calling potential volunteers to involve them in volunteer projects and events.
What is phone banking?
The accelerating rate of species extinction and associated loss of biological diversity and the alteration and destruction of habitat
What is the two most serious environmental threats?
He introduced the PAW and FIN act into congress?
Who is Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) or Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.)?
These birds can turn their heads nearly 270 degrees, and this particular subspecies lives in Colorado, Utah, and Texas.
What is a Mexican Spotted Owl?
This governing body has the primary authority for protecting and managing native wildlife and its habitat.
Who are the States?
This is where we will leave petition signatures to have the greatest impact.
What are congressional offices?
Conserve and restore imperiled biodiversity in North America and mobilize a broader constituency for wildlife conservation.
What are goals of Defenders?
Is the committee in which the bill has been passed through.
What is the subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife?
This fish is the largest Pikeminnow in North America at an average of 52 cm long and it can live for 12 years.
What are Colorado Pikeminnows?
This many species worldwide are at risk of extinction, many by 2050, according to the recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
What is 1 million?
This president in responsible for many of our country's environmental protection policy's such as NEPA and The Clean air and Water Act
Richard Nixon
As esteemed scholars, these people help Defenders maintain and extend connections with the science community at large, forming wider and stronger relationships among all stakeholder groups who are devoted to wildlife and habitat conservation.
Who are Science Advisers?
Can be accomplished through the acts of petitioning, phone banking, and writing letters to the editor.
What is pass the PAW and FIN Act?
This amphibian is active at day and night, are omnivores, and use their long sticky tongue to catch their prey. They live in the Rocky Mountains and are endangered due to a fungus in the park.
What are Boreal Toads?
The ESA was passed in this year, the same year that Roe V Wade was passed.
What is 1973?
This act is supposed to allow public comment periods for proposed federal projects on public land, which would allow citizens to express their opinions.
National Environmental Policy Act