Public Lands & Protected Spaces

As Sec. Zinke prepares to open Grand Staircase-Escalante to mining, experts and business owners say tourism income far outweighs the potential from fossil-fuel extraction.

With increased attendance and crumbling infrastructure, national parks need money. But President Trump wants to cut even more of their funding.

It took a decade of hard work, but one of the world’s most important wildlife corridors is now emerging from the fragmented forests of coastal Brazil.

The 196 nations that agreed to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets have just two years to meet auspicious conservation goals. How are we doing?

The National Butterfly Center just filed suit to block Trump’s border wall from being built on its property in Texas.

How racism, grave robbery, disrespect of tribal sovereignty and Mormon belief in divine rights is driving Utah’s attack on public lands.

The proclamation to remove more than a million acres from protection has been called everything from illegal to racist.

The Secretary of the Interior recommends reducing a "handful" of monuments.

Drilling would also harm the cultural and religious core of the Gwich’in people.

The Old-Growth Forest Network works to protect America’s shrinking woodlands.