What is a National Monument?
How is a monument different from a national park or other protected land?
Wildlife & wild places
Can you imagine a world filled with more wildlife and wild places? So can we. And we’re working together to make it happen.
Every minute, we’re losing two football fields worth of wild lands, and too many animal species face extinction. It’s up to us to turn things around. We imagine an America with more mountaintops where all we see is forests below, with more rivers that flow wild and free, more shoreline where all we hear are waves. An America with abundant wildlife, from butterflies and bees floating lazily in your backyard, to the howl of a coyote in the distance, to the breach of a whale just visible from the shore. Together, we can work toward this better future.
The Latest on Wildlife & wild places
Statement: Energy bill would wreak havoc on lands, waters and taxpayers
Statement: President Biden announces new monuments, policies to protect more nature
Updates
Environment Oregon joins the conservation chorus asking for more for our Marine Reserves
Can we save dying sea stars?
Bill to expand wildlife corridors clears first legislative hurdle
What You Can Do
Tell ConocoPhillips: Stop this proposed Arctic drilling project before it’s too late
Featured Resources
Reconnecting Nature
The Great American Outdoors Act
Journey Through the Tongass
How to save pollinators in your own backyard this Fall
I want there to be a lobbying voice in Salem whose sole goal is the preservation of Oregon's environment. While Environment Oregon surely is outspent by corporate interests, I believe they punch above their weight because our legislators recognize that Environment Oregon represents the views of the many voters who value and wish to preserve Oregon's natural beauty.Pete Tucker, Environment Oregon member
Environment Oregon is a critical voice in Salem
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How Amazon can sell toilet paper without destroying forests
The boreal forest is being logged to make toilet paper for some of the world’s largest tissue brands, including Amazon
Are grasslands good homes for bees?
It turns out that what's good for the grasslands is good for the bison and good for the bees
Which big toilet paper brands are best for our forests?
Amazon, Costco, Walmart and other major toilet paper brands can and should do more to prevent forest degradation
Toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ threaten both humans and wildlife. It’s time to stop using them.
How our use of PFAS chemicals in manufacturing is putting our natural world in jeopardy.
The most absurd thing about ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project
Before the company can extract oil so we can burn it and heat the planet, it would have to freeze ground that’s thawing because of global warming. Make sense?