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[Defenders of Wildlife @Defenders]

🗣️📢 Call in the clean-up crew 🗣️📢

That’s an important role that wolverines play in nature! By scavenging dead animals, they help recycle nutrients and reduce disease spread by eating carcasses.

Learn more about wolverines: https://t.co/8svRGz4Ayk ⬅️

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DYK the top carnivore of the Sonoran Desert weighs around 3 ounces & stands just over 6 inches tall?

If you were a lizard, a bug, a small mammal, you might fear the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl!

Learn more about the efforts to protect them: https://t.co/lb1j4XlnrO 🦉

[Defenders of Wildlife @Defenders]

Say NO to offshore drilling ❌

The Department of the Interior is taking public feedback on their draft Offshore Drilling Plan – this is our chance to protect our coastal wildlife & coastal communities.

Take action: https://t.co/NqnaCU83iZ ⬅️

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A Great Gray Owl lands on a post in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

Photo credit to Jim Chagares.

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“Repealing the Roadless Area Conservation Rule would not be in the long-term interest of the American people, the National Forests or the communities they serve.”

Former Forest Service chiefs wrote in support of the Roadless Rule.

Read it on @thehill: https://t.co/vD3hL3KC7I

[Defenders of Wildlife @Defenders]

DYK beetles 🪲 make up 25% of all accounted for animal species? Found in nearly every habitat in the world, beetles form the order Coleoptera, the largest of all orders.

Move over John, Paul, Ringo, and George and say hello to Hercules, Ladybug, Scarab, and Weevil!

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Everyone has a few bad habits, but some of our habits need a change.

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In Maine, you can find New England Cottontails in Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge!

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In Massachusetts, you can find Blanding's Turtles in Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge!

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The A in USA stands for A lot of bald eagles!

[Defenders of Wildlife @Defenders]

Being an endemic species, like the Red Wolf or Black-footed Ferret, means they are found here and nowhere else. That makes them uniquely American!

It also means we must protect them.

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Congrats to Brian Burhoe for winning the grand prize of our USA 250: Shaped by the Wild Photo Contest for his astonishing picture of a young Humpback whale calf.

His spectacular eye-to-eye shot will be featured in our exclusive Defenders of Wildlife 2028 Calendar!

[Defenders of Wildlife @Defenders]

The San Joaquin kit fox!

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The dunes sagebrush lizard!

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The crystal skipper!

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The gopher tortoise!

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The Indiana bat!

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The red-cockaded woodpecker!

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The Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle!

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