Biodiversity Archives – Deceleration

Call for Legal Rights for Amazon River Advances to Global Climate Conference

By Laura Hayter ● Biodiversity ● November 13, 2025

With global ecological systems unraveling, contested Rights of Nature legal frameworks still offer a way toward a future where governments treat land as a living ecosystem rather than just property.

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COP30 in Brazil: Five Issues to Watch

By Grist ● Solutions ● November 12, 2025

“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”

‘Slaying Monsters’: Lessons From a Washington Tree Sit for Activists Everywhere

By Annie Hartnett ● Praxis ● September 12, 2025

In a moment when increasing state repression of protest is coupled with vigilante violence, the Olympic Forest Defenders offer lessons to all about how to build power and mitigate risk while taking direct action against ecocide.

Four Wildlife Success Stories—That Require Continued Federal Engagement

By Wendee Nicole ● Biodiversity ● August 21, 2025

The Endangered Species Act has long enjoyed broad-based support. These species show success is an option.

The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act

By Wendee Nicole ● Biodiversity ● August 21, 2025

Protecting threatened and endangered species has long been popular with Americans across the political spectrum. But can the Trump administration, which has moved to weaken the Endangered Species Act, be inspired to protect the species we love?

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf States, Biodiversity—But First Up: American Samoa

By Elyse Hauser ● Gulf Coast ● July 1, 2025

The U.S. military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore.

Wolves and Humans Can Coexist, Efforts Across the U.S. Borderlands Show

By Wendee Nicole ● Biodiversity ● May 29, 2025

Apex predators are critical to healthy ecosystems. These determined biologists and wildlands advocates are out to prove that wolves and ranchers, scientists and politicians can coexist in the recovery of Mexican gray wolves.

Elon Vs. Wild: Do Expanding SpaceX Operations Signal the End for Beloved Ocelots?

By Wendee Nicole ● Biodiversity ● April 17, 2025

Starbase could become its own city. Elon Musk is about to be granted the keys to Boca Chica Beach. And accelerating operations at SpaceX could lead to several launches per day in the middle of the endangered ocelot’s withered territory. Efforts to protect the ocelot are more critical than ever.

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

By Wendee Nicole ● Biodiversity ● March 24, 2025

Last week, the Trump Administration approved the first contract of its second term for new border barriers. Wildlife biologists and Indigenous rights organizers fear what comes next.

Hawaii State Leaders Demanding Full EIS of SpaceX Starship Program

By Gaige Davila ● Biodiversity ● January 28, 2025

‘Given the lack of previous stakeholder participation, a change in spacecraft type, and the dramatically expanded area, which is further affected by ocean currents, it is unclear what the impact will be on Hawaii,’ the bill’s text reads.