DESCRIPTION: The Delta smelt is a small fish, less than 3 inches in length for most adults. Itâ s nearly translucent, with a steely-blue sheen on the sides. HABITAT: Delta smelt can tolerate a wide ...

For generations, Nevada’s Dixie Valley toad thrived in a small desert oasis, hidden from humans. But by the time scientists described it in 2017, the toad was already imperiled. We’re fighting to save ...

Climate change is the single greatest threat we've ever faced — not only to human society but to the Earth's web of life. The Center's Climate Law Institute was founded to unite our programs in ...

Meat consumption - along with energy production and use - is one of the most ecologically damaging systems on the planet ... and it’s one that will only get worse as the human population grows, unless ...

Having collected the most recent census data from state and federal bald-eagle managers in each of the lower 48 states and the District of Columbia, the Center for Biological Diversity has determined ...

NATURAL HISTORY. JAGUAR (in Spanish, el tigre) } Panthera onca FAMILY: Felidae. The word jaguar comes from the South American Tupi and Guarani languages. A likely origin is the word yaguareté, meaning ...

It's time to get at the root of this ocean crisis.The Center has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating plastics as a pollutant and is working to stop plastic pollution at ...

Three vital provisions give the Act its teeth. It’s “citizen-suit” provision lets public-interest groups and individuals petition and sue sluggish federal agencies to make sure the Act protects ...

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 ...

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because ...

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 ...

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 ...