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Press Release: Oversight Hearing to Examine Whether Efforts to Thin Forests to Reduce Fire Risks are Failing at Scale

by Wild Heritage | Mar 16, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Ecological Restoration, Featured, Forests

For Immediate Release - March 15, 2022 Oversight Hearing to Examine Whether Efforts to Thin Forests to Reduce Fire Risks are Failing at Scale. Existing and growing body of field studies reveal that the Forest Service has cherry picked success stories while ignoring...

Wild Heritage: A Founding Member of the Climate Forests Campaign

by Cyril Kormos | Feb 15, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Ecological Restoration, Forests, Uncategorized

The Climate Forests Campaign: calling on the Biden Administration to let older trees grow For Immediate Release Contact: Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist, [email protected] Washington, D.C. (February 15, 2022) — More than 70 groups have launched...

Read Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala’s OpEd in The Hill

by Cyril Kormos | Nov 22, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Ecological Restoration, Forests

See Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala's Op Ed in The Hill on U.S. forests and climate change.

COP26 Blog

by Cyril Kormos | Nov 18, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Forests, Uncategorized

Read our closing thoughts on COP26 and forests! Wild Heritage COP26 Blog Photo: Jaime Rojo

Wild Heritage joins open letter to Biden Admin.

by Cyril Kormos | Nov 8, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Forests

Wild Heritage is a lead signatory on an open letter to the Biden Admin. calling for the removal of provisions in the budget reconciliation and infrastructure bills that will worsen climate change. See the letter Scientists Open Letter Nov. 4 on Logging and Fossil Fuel...

by Cyril Kormos | Sep 22, 2021 | Conservation, Uncategorized

Wild Heritage is proud to partner with COICA, Stand.earth, Amazon Watch, One Earth, Avaaz, Artists for Amazonia and Noo World on a call for protecting 80% of Amazonia by 2025. Please see the website for the initiative and please sign the declaration!

New IPCC Report on Climate Change Released – We are running out of time!

by Cyril Kormos | Aug 9, 2021 | Conservation

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its first of three reports from its latest assessment (6th Assessment Report) on the state of the climate change crisis. The findings are very disturbing. Even at about 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming, we are...