Many of our campaigns to save life on Earth last for years. Once we take on a species, place, or issue, we don’t stop fighting until we win.
Coastal martens are a good example. These stealthy, cat-sized forest carnivores in the weasel family are so rare that they were thought extinct until rediscovered in 1996. Now, due to numerous threats, coastal martens have been eliminated from 95 percent of their historic range, with only about 400 of them left on Earth.
To prevent their extinction, in 2010 we petitioned to protect them under the federal Endangered Species Act. When protections were denied, we sued (more than once) until protections were won in 2020. Now we make sure that their protections are enforced. Most recently, we sued the U.S. Forest Service for failing to protect coastal martens from destructive off-road vehicle activity in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.
*Thank you* for being by our side to protect species like lethally cute coastal martens. They truly ne...
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