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WildEarth Guardians
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We protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. Join us!
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 5h
Oregon's forests are #WorthMoreStanding. Here’s why the Forest Service needs a Blue Mountains Forests Plan revision that has enforceable protections for old growth forest and other important wildlife habitat ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvxX3uBJrM&t=2s
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 7h
Thank you to the New Mexico delegation - Sen. Heinrich, Sen. Luján, Rep. Leger Fernández, Rep. Stansbury and Rep. Vasquez - for standing up against Trump's attack on the Roadless Rule, an attack that will cost New Mexico and the West some of the last Wild places we have.

https://loom.ly/X_T3dRY
Heinrich, N.M. Delegation Demand Trump Administration Omit New Mexico from Roadless Rule Rescission
Lawmakers to Rollins: “We are concerned that rolling back this rule would hurt our state’s economy, diminish its wildlife, and endanger its residents”
www.energy.senate.gov
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 8h
For decades, big oil and gas corporations like Exxon have treated our state like a sacrifice zone—extracting wealth and leaving behind pollution.

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Climate groups unfurl anti-Exxon banners at Roundhouse • Source New Mexico
New Mexico environmentalists unfurl anti-Exxon banner at the Roundhouse to protest its sponsorship of balloon fiesta.
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 9h
🏆 As ExxonMobil's title sponsorship of #Balloon Fiesta paints - or taints - NM skies this week, we're "honoring" ExxonMobil with a much more fitting title for what this oil corporation offers New Mexico: Top Polluter.

Learn more ➡️ https://loom.ly/VP3HqZQ
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 1d
There's still time to help us meet our goal! Every dollar counts ➡️ https://loom.ly/5X1C9tc

This Earth Gives Day, your gift will help protect wolves being gunned down in Montana, keep fracking waste out of New Mexico's water, and save old growth forests on the chopping block across the West.
Earth Gives Day
Let's make a change together. Join me in investing in climate and environmental nonprofits on Earth Gives Day, October 7, 2025!
www.earthgives.org
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 1d
Another attack on wildlife and nature in the West ➡️ controversial highway through conservation area in SW Utah is back on the table. What's at stake?

🔥 Increased fire
🐢 Loss of tortoise habitat
🌿 Spread of noxious weeds
🏜️ Negative impact to cultural resources

https://loom.ly/7V6NEL8

Feds put polarizing southern Utah highway proposal back on the table, months after Biden administration rejected it
The Bureau of Land Management is reassessing the controversial Northern Corridor highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area.
www.sltrib.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 1d
When ExxonMobil caught sight of it's reflection this weekend at Balloon Fiesta, the title sponsor didn't like what it saw. Instead, ExxonMobil chose to look directly into the sun while New Mexico pays the price of pollution. #BalloonFiesta ➡️ https://loom.ly/L3nXKxU
Activists offering parody 'produced water tastings' say they were ousted from Balloon Fiesta
Politics, protest and produced water — what's the policy at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta?
www.santafenewmexican.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 1d
Today is #Earth Gives Day! With a gift to Guardians, YOU protect wolves in Montana, keep fracking waste out of New Mexico's water, and save mature and old-growth forests on the chopping block across the West.

Make a donation to WildEarth Guardians for Earth Gives today ➡️ https://loom.ly/5X1C9tc
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 1d
🎈Congrats ExxonMobil, the winner of our Top Polluter Award! 🏆

📈17,883 spills
🛢️5,053,188 gallons of fluids
🔥 6,890,815 mcf of methane and other gases

ExxonMobil wants you to forget all that by slapping its logo on Balloon Fiesta. We're not buying it. #LeakOfTheWeek
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 2d
It's never been more glaringly obvious that without restored #EndangeredSpeciesAct protections, gray wolves in wolf-hostile Northern Rockies states like Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming will be driven, once again, to extinction. #WolvesBelong 🐾 https://loom.ly/8m_oej0
Not enough wolves being killed in Montana, lawsuit alleges
Filed by two state lawmakers and other plaintiffs, the lawsuit alleges wolf quotas are too low to conform to laws passed by the Legislature in 2021.
billingsgazette.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 2d
As journalist Ben Goldfarb writes: "roads kill ecosystems by a thousand cuts."

But Trump intends to rescind the Roadless Rule, opening America’s forests to a wave of new roadbuilding and logging. Read the piece in the @bostonglobe.com ➡️ https://loom.ly/rLWrdq8
A road runs through it - The Boston Globe
America’s wild lands are already home to vast networks of paved and dirt roads. Now the Trump administration is about to expand their reach.
www.bostonglobe.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 2d
Our Top Polluter Report “honors” ExxonMobile for spilling more than 5 million gallons of toxic fluids in New Mexico and leaking enough methane to fill 90,000 hot air balloons. #BalloonFiesta #MakePollutersPay

https://loom.ly/VP3HqZQ
ExxonMobil “Wins” 2025 Top Polluter Award at Balloon Fiesta
WildEarth Guardians today released its Top Polluter Report, “honoring” the oil giant with the 2025 Top Polluter Award for its unrelenting record of toxic oil, gas, and waste spills across New Mexico.
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 2d
What's the harm?

Read how the definition of "harm" in the #EndangeredSpeciesAct is key to protecting species like the Rio Grande's tiny silvery minnow from extinction in the latest issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social ➡️ https://loom.ly/TcJJFy0
This One Word Change Could Gut Our Strongest Conservation Law
The bipartisan Endangered Species Act is on the line as the federal government proposes a new change
www.sierraclub.org
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 2d
🫣 ExxonMobil didn't like it when fracking wastewater, marketed as "produced water," made a splash at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta over the weekend ➡️ https://loom.ly/zm_KDp0

#BalloonFiesta
Anti-Exxon protestors removed from Balloon Fiesta after daring visitors to drink fake 'produced water' - New Mexico Political Report
Visitors to opening weekend of the ExxonMobil Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta were greeted by an unexpected protest against the event’s main sponsor. Satirical protestors supported by WildEarth Guardians and the The Yes Men dressed as sales representatives of a fake oil and gas company, Exxtreme Energy, and offered samples of the company’s “new hydration and …
nmpoliticalreport.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 2d
🐻 The science is clear and the court agrees: Grizzlies need safe, livestock-free passage between population cores to fully recover.

Last month, a federal judge found that the USFS violated the law following an expansion of commercial livestock grazing near Yellowstone ➡️ https://loom.ly/TdiN710
US agency under fire for concerning use of public lands: 'Misguided and illegal'
A federal judge has found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the law following an expansion of commercial livestock grazing near Yellowstone National Park.
www.thecooldown.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 4d
A new oil & gas company was unveiled at #BalloonFiesta, who promises "isotope-enriched river hydration created by drilling operations" as drinking water-- are you thirsty for the truth? https://sourcenm.com/briefs/conservation-satirist-group-launches-parody-billboards-ahead-of-balloon-fiesta/
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 5d
Sage grouse management must effectively address today’s realities — worsening wildfires, invasive species, and escalating oil and gas development. But the Trump administration is trying to undermine current protections and sweep away critical conservation measures ➡️ https://loom.ly/npfSaIw
Proposed Sage Grouse Management Undermines Current Protections and Sweeps Away Critical Conservation Measures 
Weakening sage-grouse conservation will yet again push this uniquely American bird closer to extinction.
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 5d
Idaho ranchers have been coexisting with wolves since the 1990s.

How do they do it?

“We changed the way we were grazing,” said Alderspring Ranch CEO and Co-Founder Glenn Elzinga. “We changed the way we thought. The thing we went back to was history.” #WolvesBelong

More ➡️ https://loom.ly/dUN_A3o
Idahoans come to Carbondale with stories of successful wolf coexistence
Three Idahoans with deep histories in ranching, wolf restoration, and predator control came to Carbondale last week to discuss the ways that coexisting with wolves could be possible in the Roaring Fork Valley with ranchers and community members.
www.aspentimes.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 5d
☢️ In the weeks leading up to Balloon Fiesta, drivers in New Mexico were stunned to see billboards advertising radioactive “produced water."

The ads are the beginning of a parody campaign highlighting the dangers and absurdity of oil and gas wastewater reuse. Learn more ➡️ https://loom.ly/B2WeAJg
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 5d
For wolves in the Northern Rockies, fall marks the beginning of an open season of terror and extermination ☠️

See for yourself the brazen anti-wolf attitude that would eliminate wolves in a heartbeat, without advocates like you to stand up for these native carnivores. #EndCruelTrapping
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you our member Mary Katherine Ray for writing this great letter! #WolvesBelong
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you, Dr. Goodall, for your courage, conviction, and tireless dedication to the Wild. #AForceForNature

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/459238450/jane-goodall-primatologist-dead-91
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
www.npr.org
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 8d
😭 🤬 Yet another record year of grizzly bear deaths...

Yellowstone grizzlies simply cannot withstand the current, excessive rates of killing. Rather than rushing to delist grizzlies, the government needs to redouble efforts to promote coexistence. #BearsBelong

https://loom.ly/twP7u8s
Yellowstone ecosystem grizzlies dying at record pace in 2025 - WyoFile
Biologists list 63 bears confirmed dead in 2025, up from 56 at this time in 2024, which was a record year.
wyofile.com
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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 8d
🛢️There's a word for claiming your oil and gas extraction is clean and responsible while repeatedly polluting behind the scenes: greenwashing.

😡 That's what Exxon's takeover of New Mexico's beloved Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta really is.

#MakePollutersPay #LeakOfTheWeek

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WildEarth Guardians @wildearthguardians.bsky.social · 11d
Happy #NationalPublicLandsDay, Guardians! Today, we say a sincere thank you for all that you've done to protect the lands, waters, forests, and wildlife that we cherish as the American public. Now go enjoy our public lands and all they offer our communities, the Wild, and future generations.
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