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WildEarth Guardians is a non-profit grassroots environmental organization best known for its decade-long legal action against the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which culminated in 2011 with the Fish and Wildlife Service agreeing to move forward with protection for more than 800 species under the Endangered Species Act.〔 〕〔 〕 WildEarth Guardians operates primarily in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and in the Pacific Northwest. As of January 2015, WildEarth Guardians has over 67,000 members.〔 The headquarters are in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with field offices in Boulder (CO), Denver (CO), Eugene (OR), Laramie (WY), Missoula (MT), Portland (OR), San Diego (CA), Salt Lake City (UT), and Tucson (AZ). Their legal teams and conservation work are supported by membership donations, private foundations, and government grants and contracts. The 2014 annual budget was about $4.1 million, of which 31% came from 57 private foundations and 30% from individual donations.〔 The GOP political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity estimates that WildEarth Guardians have been winning about 77% of their lawsuits.〔 〕 ==History== WildEarth Guardians started as an environmental group calling itself Forest Guardians in 1989 to fight logging on New Mexico's Elk Mountain. Soon Forest Guardians took on other projects such as the public lands livestock grazing industry. They were able to buy leases for public land by outbidding local ranchers. Then they restored the landscape by keeping cattle out, restoring native plants, and removing non-native plants. In 1996 they expanded to take on river issues, particularly the Rio Grande silvery minnow, which was brought to the brink of extinction when drought caused the Rio Grande to dry up for 60 miles. An official endangered species program was launched in 2001, and in 2007 a climate and energy program was started. Forest Guardians became WildEarth Guardians when they merged with Sinapu, a Boulder Colorado environmental group in 2008, and expanded the scope of its efforts to include Canada and Mexico, with an emphasis on the Rocky Mountain region. WildEarth Guardians merged with two environmental groups during 2013, forming a greatly expanded organization that continues under the "WildEarth Guardians" name. Wildlands CPR was based in Montana, USA, and had a 20-year history of protecting and resting healthy watersheds from the threats of roads and motorized recreation. The Utah Environmental Congress was Utah's statewide National Forest watchdog, with a 15-year history of activism with respect to logging and road building in National Forests. With these two mergers, the membership of WildEarth Guardians jumped from 20,000 to an estimated 60,000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WildEarth Guardians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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