2008 Annual Report 1

2008 Annu Defenders ofWildlife rt al Repo DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.

Rodger Schlickeisen, President Jamie Rappaport Clark, Executive Vice President

annual report Staff Editor: Mark Cheater Publications Manager: Kate Davies Writer: Krista Schlyer Photo Editor: Charles Kogod Art Director: Jen Lee

Cover photo: Mother polar bear and cubs, Churchill, Canada. © Kenneth R. Whitten/Alaska Stock/National Geographic Stock

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Gray wolf, Minnesota table of contents © Jim Brandenburg/Minden Pictures

2 Board of Directors 23 Educating and Mobilizing the Public 3 Defenders in 2008 24 Annual Awards Dinner 4 About Defenders of Wildlife 26 Defenders on the Map 6 Responding to Threats 28 Financial Report 14 Providing Solutions 29 Major Contributors 18 Strengthening Conservation Planning 36 Ways of Giving 22 Working Across our Borders 2 Defenders of Wildlife

Board of Directors

Victor M. Sher* H. Ronald Pulliam, Ph.D. Brian B. O’Neill Terry Root, Ph.D. Chair Georgia Faegre & Benson LLP Stanford University California George B. Rabb, Ph.D. Matthew F. Pawa Mark Schwartz, Ph.D. Terry C. Pelster* Illinois Law Offices of Matthew F. University of California, Davis Vice Chair Pawa, P.C. New York Rodger Schlickeisen, Ph.D.* Lee M. Talbot, Ph.D. Virginia Daniel Rohlf George Mason University Richard Kopcho* Lewis & Clark Law School Treasurer Laura Turner Seydel* David S. Wilcove, Ph.D. California Georgia Karin Sheldon Princeton University Western Resource Advocates Adelaide P. Gomer* Karin Sheldon Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D. Secretary Colorado Victor M. Sher Harvard University New York Sher Leff LLP Alan W. Steinberg Rosie Woodroffe, Ph.D. Ed Asner Florida University of California, Davis California Science Advisors Lee Talbot, Ph.D. Peter G. Brown, Ph.D. Virginia Peter Brown, Ph.D. National Advisory Quebec McGill University Board

Jeff Corwin Litigation Barry Noon, Ph.D. Bryan G. Norton, Ph.D. Massachusetts Committee Colorado State University Georgia

Irene Crowe, Ph.D. Eric R. Glitzenstein Reed F. Noss, Ph.D. Gilman Ordway Washington, D.C. Chair University of Central Florida Wyoming Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal Gloria Flora Charles Peterson, Ph.D. Alan Pilkington Montana Dinah Bear University of North Carolina Colorado Attorney at Law, Washington Caroline Gabel D.C. Dan Pletcher, Ph.D. Maryland University of Montana David Getches Eric R. Glitzenstein University of Colorado School H. Ronald Pulliam, Ph.D. Washington, D.C. of Law University of Georgia

Liberty Godshall Oliver Houck George B. Rabb, Ph.D. California Tulane University Law School Chicago Zoological Society

Winsome McIntosh Ruth Musgrave Washington, D.C. Center for Wildlife Law

Ruth Musgrave* Barry Noon, Ph.D. Washington Colorado State University

Barry Noon, Ph.D. Colorado

Richard G. Pritzlaff Maryland

*Executive Committee member 2008 annual report 3

Defenders in 2008

hroughout our more than 60-year ing of gray wolves in Alaska. Defenders • A ban on the capture and sale of history, we have weathered many secured the support of more than 100 Mexico’s wild parrots, signed into storms and embraced many cosponsors for our Protect America’s law after a long campaign by our Topportunities for wildlife—and 2008 was Wildlife Act in the House of Representa- Mexico office; no exception. On the national level, the tives in 2008—and we expect to make • A landmark agreement with major continuing anti-conservation stance of even more progress in 2009. landowners to protect habitat and the Bush administration and its allies on We launched a large-scale effort to travel corridors for endangered Capitol Hill assured that we would remain enhance protections for wildlife in our Florida panthers. in a defensive posture on many issues. national forests and on lands managed In the fall, Defenders began gearing While stopping numerous initiatives that by the Bureau of Land Management. up for the end of the Bush administration These public lands provide vital habitat and what we hope will be the dawn of a for myriad species, from wolverines to new era for conservation. We crafted and woodpeckers, and they will play a key distributed a report, Wildlife Conservation role in helping wildlife adapt to global Agenda for the Next Administration, and a climate change. In addition to securing series of white papers detailing the issues introduction of legislation on this issue and steps that must be undertaken by the in Congress, we have been working to next president—both to recover from the increase public awareness about the past eight years of assaults on the environ- importance of our public lands and the ment, and to reassert this nation’s great wildlife they safeguard. heritage in wildlife conservation. In the courts, our legal team achieved The fall elections offered new hope for several important victories, including our agenda in Washington. However, we blocking the premature removal of also saw our economic outlook darken. As would have severely harmed America’s northern Rockies gray wolves from the one of the worst economic downturns in wildlife, we also were able to make some endangered species list, increasing habitat decades began to take its toll, we began important gains on crucial wildlife issues protections for nesting shorebirds at Cape making strategic cuts in our budget to ranging from global warming to aerial Hatteras National Seashore and securing remain financially healthy. The reductions killing of wolves. increased safeguards for right whales. will allow us to remain strong and able to In 2008 we advanced our campaign to Our lawyers also took the case of pursue our top priorities, but narrow the ensure that our nation’s response to global borderlands species such as jaguars, prong- range of the work that we do. warming emphasizes not only the reduc- horn and Mexican gray wolves all the way We hope that 2009 will bring an tion of greenhouse-gas pollution, but to the doors of the Supreme Court, arguing economic recovery that allows us to also includes mechanisms to minimize against a law that has allowed the Depart- seize fully the many opportunities for and mitigate the damage to wildlife and ment of Homeland Security to waive wildlife that should follow the end of ecosystems. As a first step in achieving a environmental considerations to expedite the Bush era. national strategy for aiding wildlife, we building of a border wall that blocks crucial helped establish the National Climate wildlife migration corridors. Change and Wildlife Science Center as In addition to this work on the a part of the U.S. Geological Survey. We national level, our staffers around North are also working to persuade Congress to America worked to make 2008 a year of Victor Sher enact global-warming legislation that will great strides for wildlife. Highlights of Chair, Board of Directors safeguard wildlife as a necessary compo- this work included: nent of comprehensive legislation that • The debut of our Conservation reduces greenhouse-gas emissions. Registry, an online database that Also in Congress we worked to pass will catalogue individual conserva- Rodger Schlickeisen federal legislation to end the aerial shoot- tion efforts around the nation; President and Chief Executive Officer

Victor Sher and Rodger Schlickeisen © Marty Katz 4 Defenders of Wildlife

About Defenders of Wildlife

For more than six decades Safeguarding Defenders of Wildlife has Imperiled Species In 1973 Defenders helped enact the been a leader in wildlife Endangered Species Act, which has proven Sheltering North conservation. From the to be one of our best tools for safeguarding America’s Biodiversity moment we opened our imperiled species. Over the past 35 years we In addition to imperiled species, Defend- doors in 1947 with a single have used this law to help protect creatures ers has worked to safeguard the lesser- such as the California condor, polar bear known inhabitants of ecosystems around staff person focusing on and manatee. We have also fended off the country. Our national wildlife refuges, protecting coyotes and other attempts by various presidential admin- national forests and other public lands predators, to the present with istrations, corporations and legislators to provide havens to countless unheralded weaken this legislation, ensuring that it will species that provide the foundation of a staff of more than 130 continue to provide a crucial safety net for healthy ecosystems. We have therefore people around North America our country’s wildlife. worked to ensure that land managers and working on issues from global policymakers conserve wildlife on our Defending the Wild federal lands. And because few species warming to migratory birds— Defenders led the way for the return of can remain healthy when isolated in we have focused on the the wolf to the lower-48 states in the small patches of habitat, we have worked most innovative and effective 1990s, and since then we have worked to to maintain and create connectivity in safeguard their recovery in the Rockies and habitats severed by roads and human means for protecting wildlife elsewhere. We have beaten back numer- development. and habitat. ous attempts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to destructive oil drilling. Championing We have protected the grizzly bear as it Innovative Approaches made a comeback in the West. And we Defenders has pioneered efforts to create have labored tirelessly to find a future beneficial relationships with people who for the rare Florida panther and other cat live with wildlife day to day— like ranchers species that have lost the vast expanses of and farmers. Our proactive programs have habitat that they need to survive. brought biologists together with livestock Defenders has also helped human producers to develop tools for ensuring communities deal with the changes and that predators and cattle can coexist. We challenges that sometimes come with the have worked to create tax incentives for return of a top predator to the landscape. landowners who want to restore and And we have helped champion the benefits, preserve their land as wildlife habitat. And both economic and ecological, that flow more recently, as the threat of global warm- from the recovery of these key species. ing has loomed larger, we have become a leader in efforts to assist wildlife in surviving the catastrophic changes humans have brought about. As the threat of global warming has loomed larger, we have become a leader in efforts to assist wildlife in surviving the catastrophic changes humans have brought about. 2008 annual report 5

Grizzly bear in Katmai National Park, Alaska © Matthias Breiter/ Minden Pictures/ National Geographic Stock 6 Defenders of Wildlife Actions and Accomplishments

Responding to Threats

Defenders and our supporters have made a significant difference for wild species and habitats over the past 60 years. Unfortunately, the world remains a difficult place for Defenders’ executive wildlife: human overpopulation, vice president dependence on fossil fuels, Jamie Rappaport Clark testifies at a sprawling development and congressional hearing. © Charles Kogod/ misguided predator-control Defenders of Wildlife programs all pose major threats. Defenders’ team of Tackling Global Warming 2007, and components of our global warm- The impacts of global warming—from ing agenda were included in major climate conservation, legal, policy sea-level rise to altered climate patterns— change bills advanced in 2008. And in June and communications experts are being felt by all who inhabit the our executive vice president, Jamie Rappa- is working to address these planet, but especially by wild animals and port Clark, testified on Capitol Hill and plants. Defenders is working to make sure urged Congress to mandate coordinated challenges both in the United that while we reduce greenhouse gas emis- federal action to help safeguard wildlife States and abroad. sions and help people cope with a warmer from climate change. world, we also protect wildlife from the Defenders is also advancing the body impacts of climate change. of knowledge that will help craft our In addition to supporting rigorous national strategies. In 2008, we produced measures to reduce greenhouse gasses three major reports on global warming. in our atmosphere, this year Defenders The first, Reducing the Impact of Global helped establish the National Climate Warming on Wildlife, is a synthesis of the Change and Wildlife Science Center insights and policy recommendations within the U.S. Geological Survey. The that resulted from the global warming center will be a crucial tool for crafting symposium Defenders hosted in 2007. and implementing strategies for helping The second, Beyond Cutting Emis- wildlife, and will serve as a conduit for sions, makes the case for a coordinated cooperation among scientists, policy national strategy to protect wildlife and makers and land and wildlife managers. ecosystems, and for dedicated funding We also helped craft and lobby for to implement this strategy. The third, passage of federal legislation to help address The Implications of Climate Change for Beyond Cutting Emissions, one of the drastic impacts that global warming Conservation, Restoration and Manage- several reports on global warming will have on many plants and animals. ment of National Forest Lands, summarizes produced by Defenders in 2008. The Global Warming Wildlife Survival the key scientific literature on climate Act passed the House of Representatives in change and forests. Porcupine20082008 caribou annual annual herd, report report Arctic7 National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. © Mark Kelley/Alaska Stock LLC/ National Geographic Stock

Staff profile Jean Brennan, senior climate change scientist

One morning in the spring of 2008, Jean After additional field work overseas, Brennan decided to return to Brennan walked into her office at Defenders’ the United States and got a job as a research associate at the University headquarters and noticed a large package on of California at Davis. There, in 1998, state officials asked her team to her desk. She opened it to find a certificate look into whether climate change was a threat to California. A year later, honoring her work that led to the 2007 Nobel she moved to the office of global change at the U.S. State Department— Peace Prize. where she participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on The honor was for her significant contri- Climate Change. butions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Brennan joined Defenders in 2006, and now works as senior climate- Climate Change, which shared the peace change scientist. Among her achievements at Defenders are helping to prize with former Vice President Al Gore organize a major conference of experts in 2007 to discuss global warm- for their work on global warming. “This is ing and wildlife, authoring a major report—Reducing the Impact of Global the peace prize,” Brennan says. “It’s not for Warming on Wildlife—in 2008, serving on numerous consultative work- science that the work is being recognized. It’s for peace. It’s profoundly ing groups, and advising state and federal wildlife and natural resource significant that part of humanity now recognizes how central address- agencies on ways to address the impacts of climate change. ing climate change is to world peace.” Brennan’s quest is to meld science and policy in responding to A Nobel prize was not on her mind when she first started working the threats posed by climate change. Defenders is the perfect place with animals as a zoo volunteer in high school—or even when she was for her to do this, she says. “I’m very fortunate to be working in this in college. “When I left college I had no grand ambitions but I wanted organization, because Defenders is strong on both programmatic and to visit Africa before it was all gone,” she recalls. “So I sold everything I policy emphases.” owned and bought a ticket to Kenya.” And while the work presents new challenges every day, she couldn’t She found a job doing primate research, which led her to return to be happier with where she is now. “People ask me, ‘Aren’t you depressed, school to continue her work with primates. Brennan went on to get two working on climate change?’ I say ‘No!’ This is the most exciting thing master’s degrees, and then a doctorate from the University of Tennes- and a great opportunity. You get to make a contribution not just to the see in population genetics. science, but to the world.”

Jean Brennan © Charles Kogod/Defenders of Wildlife 8 Defenders of Wildlife

Protecting Wolves Meanwhile, in Alaska, more than 800 Defenders has also ramped up efforts Wolves are again roaming wild in places wolves have been killed over the past five on behalf of wolves in the Southwest. like Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley and years under the state’s barbarous aerial- In 2008 we recruited 265 volunteers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, providing shooting program. In 2008, we supported Arizona to write and distribute informa- economic benefits to the human commu- a state ballot initiative against aerial wolf- tion supporting the return of the wolf to nities in these areas and ecological benefits hunting in Alaska. Unfortunately, the this region. The group submitted letters to to the plants and animals that share the initiative was defeated in August, largely the editors of all the major newspapers in wolves’ habitat. But the misguided fears due to a $400,000 state-funded publicity the state, and following this campaign the that nearly drove this species to extinction campaign supporting predator control, Arizona Republic wrote a favorable edito- in the past still exist in some quarters, and and vocal support for aerial shooting by rial on wolves. To further our outreach assaults on wolves continue. vice presidential candidate and Alaska efforts, in March we cosponsored Dia In March, the Bush administration governor, Sarah Palin. Palin has also de Los Lobos, a celebration in Tucson to officially stripped wolves in the northern defended the killing of wolf pups by the mark the 10th anniversary of the return of Rockies of protections under the Endan- Alaska Board of Game. the Mexican wolf to the wild in Arizona. gered Species Act, allowing state officials The ballot initiative’s loss makes The event included live music, dancing, in Wyoming and Idaho to pursue wolf- congressional passage of the Protect storytelling and art projects for kids. killing programs. In Wyoming, more than America’s Wildlife (PAW) Act—legisla- In April, Defenders filed a lawsuit chal- 40 wolves were killed as a result. Defend- tion that would close a loophole in the lenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s ers took the federal government to court federal Airborne Hunting Act exploited mismanagement of the recovery program and won a major victory in July, when a by Alaska officials—all the more impor- for the Mexican wolf. The suit challenges judge in Montana temporarily barred the tant. Defenders has partnered with a the service’s delegation of control over the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service from delisting powerful ally in Rep. George Miller program to various federal and state agen- the wolves. Our legal victory stopped (D-Calif.), the lead sponsor in the House cies, and the unauthorized adoption of a additional planned wolf hunts in Idaho, for our bill. PAW has 130 co-sponsors in rigid policy of killing wolves that prey on Montana and Wyoming; and the Fish and the House, and with this support and cattle. We are seeking to compel the federal Wildlife Service subsequently withdrew the results of November’s elections, we government to recognize its responsibility its delisting rule to address the problems believe we have a good chance to end to restore, rather than remove, this endan- we pointed out in court. Alaska’s aerial assault on wolves. gered species.

donor profile The Wilburforce Foundation

Gray wolves in the northern Rockies and wolf recovery programs in the northern Rockies and Southwest—support Mexican wolves in the Southwest have that has been crucial in helping us build public acceptance for wolves in an important defender in the Wilburforce both regions. This public support is essential for true recovery of these Foundation. Established in 1991 and based threatened animals—without it, wolf opponents could derail more than in Seattle, Washington (with an office in a decade’s worth of progress. “Keystone species like wolves are very Bozeman, Montana), Wilburforce is a private, important as biodiversity indicators, and Wilburforce Foundation has a philanthropic foundation that promotes the long-term commitment to protecting wildlands and wildlife,” says execu- creation of reserves, corridors and buffer tive director Tim Greyhavens. zones in the West to safeguard wolves and The foundation also provided a lead grant enabling Defenders to other imperiled animals. In responding to the open a Rocky Mountain office in Bozeman, Montana, in 2007. Defend- enormous challenges posed by the impacts ers’ Bozeman office, now housing three full-time staffers, allows usto of global warming, the foundation is also respond quickly to pressing threats facing wolves and other species in funding innovative work that sheds light on climate change scenarios and the northern Rockies. the most resilient means for adapting to them in their funding region. This “We could not ask for a better partner than Defenders to carry out this work will help funders, grantees and policymakers develop conservation work. Our foundation carefully assesses every dollar we spend, and when strategies in the face of dramatic changes across the landscape. it comes to conservation leadership, the ability to get things done and For the past five years, the foundation has supported Defenders’ overall effectiveness of Defenders is outstanding,” says Greyhavens.

Tim Greyhavens photo courtesy of the Wilburforce Foundation 2008 annual report 9

Festivities at Dia de Los Lobos, an event cosponsored by Defenders celebrating the return of the Mexican wolf to the wild in Arizona. © Robert Unangst “Our foundation carefully assesses every dollar we spend, and when it comes to conservation leadership, the ability to get things done and overall effectiveness of Defenders

is outstanding.”

—Tim Greyhavens, executive director, the Wilburforce Foundation

Black wolf, Denali National Park, Alaska © Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott/Minden Pictures 10 Defenders of Wildlife

Increasingly, the natural travels of wild animals are hindered by human development and artificial boundaries.

Safeguarding Wildlife In addition to fighting the border istration. A series of lawsuits prompted Along the Border wall, Defenders joined the Yaqui-Gila the National Marine Fisheries Service in Increasingly, the natural travels of wild Watershed Alliance, a binational collec- October to issue a rule mandating that animals are hindered by human develop- tive of more than 20 groups active in large ships slow their speed to 10 knots or ment and artificial boundaries. Nowhere the Southwest and northern Mexico. less when in crucial right whale habitat are these threats more apparent than The group’s goal is to protect and restore along the East Coast. along the border of the United States and the rich ecological diversity of the And in one final 2008 victory for Mexico. The construction of a massive borderlands region by keeping the land the right whale, Defenders secured a wall along this border imperils not only open and unfragmented and by restoring court order mandating that the National endangered species such as the jaguar, degraded areas. Marine Fisheries Service reinstate regu- ocelot, jaguarundi and Sonoran prong- Our legal team also pressed the U.S. lations requiring “whale safe” fishing horn, but other animals as well. Fish and Wildlife Service to safeguard gear when right whales are present. The In March Defenders and the Sierra jaguars. In June, Defenders filed suit fisheries service allowed these protec- Club asked the Supreme Court to challenging the service’s decision not to tions to lapse when it gave the fishing review the constitutionality of the Real create a recovery plan for jaguars under industry more time to comply with ID Act, which grants the Department the Endangered Species Act. This case is new, expanded regulations—despite at of Homeland Security the authority to important not only for the recovery of least a dozen right whales being injured waive all federal laws to build the border the jaguar in the United States, but also or killed from entanglements in fishing wall. Homeland Security used this waiver because it attempts to reverse a danger- gear since 2002. Defenders’ court victory to dismiss a court order that Defenders ous trend by the government of denying will help keep whales safe until the new and our partners secured in 2007, block- protections for native species that range regulations take effect. ing construction of the wall through outside our borders. the fragile San Pedro National Riparian Saving Shorebirds in Conservation Area in Arizona. Helping Northern North Carolina In April, then-Secretary of Homeland Right Whales Many shorebirds, including the threat- Security Michael Chertoff said he would The slow-moving, long-lived northA tlan- ened piping plover, common tern and impose a blanket waiver of environmental tic right whale is still trying to recover American oystercatcher, depend on and other laws to expedite building of from the centuries of slaughter that took undisturbed beach habitat for nest- the wall. Our communications team it to the brink of extinction. Only about ing. Numbers of nesting species have responded by appealing to editorial boards 350 of the whales remain worldwide. declined on Cape Hatteras National across the country, encouraging them to Because ship strikes are a major cause Seashore by 86 percent over the past speak out. Dozens of newspapers editori- of right whale deaths and injuries, we decade—and several nesting species alized or wrote stories on the waiver, many have been fighting to make sure the have disappeared altogether—due in of them quoting Defenders. And in the Coast Guard makes protection of right large part to off-road vehicles driving weeks that followed, more than a dozen whales a priority. Our efforts paid off in unrestricted on the area’s beaches. influential committee chairs in Congress the fall, when the U.S. Court of Appeals Hoping to make a little space for the joined our appeal to the Supreme Court. agreed that the Coast Guard is required shorebirds, Defenders and other groups Unfortunately the Supreme Court to consult with the National Marine asked a federal judge to suspend beach declined to take the case. But the effort Fisheries Service about establishing driving on parts of the seashore most garnered invaluable media attention for vessel separation lanes in waters leading critical to nesting shorebirds and other this important conservation issue, and we to United States ports. beach wildlife. TheN ational Park Service, are hopeful that a new Congress and new Defenders also helped spur the which manages the seashore, had previ- presidential administration will be more creation of speed limits for vessels, ously recommended the closures, but was inclined to honor the rule of law. despite the resistance of the Bush admin- taking so long to develop regulations that 2008 annual report 11

Right: Piping plover © Tom Vezo/Minden Pictures

Below: Wall on United States-Mexico border © Krista Schlyer/Wayfarerphotography.com

Bottom: Right whale © PCCS Image taken under NOAA fisheries permit 633-1483, under the authority of the U.S. Endangered Species and Marine Mammal Protection acts 12 Defenders of Wildlife

several more shorebird species could have On one front, we joined a coalition are countering this lawsuit to safeguard the been eliminated from the area. challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife polar bear from trophy hunts. The judge agreed that the danger posed Service over an oil and gas lease in to these species warranted immediate Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. This sea provides a Protecting Pygmy Owls action—and now about 12 percent of the crucial haven for polar bears—one that is In the tangled camouflage of desert seashore’s beach habitat will be protected already compromised by significant loss scrub thickets and in saguaro cacti from beach driving, so that the birds can of summer sea ice due to global warming. holes, the tiny cactus ferruginous nest in peace and raise their chicks. Nonetheless, the service pressed ahead pygmy-owl makes its home. This owl with the sale of the leases. The coalition species is critically imperiled. Today Assisting Polar Bears has demanded that the Interior Depart- only about 20 exist in Arizona because As their Arctic habitat melts around ment’s Minerals Management Service of the massive suburban sprawl that has them and food becomes scarce, polar consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service claimed owl habitat there. Despite this bears face an uncertain future. These on the effects of the lease on polar bears. fact, the Bush administration decided bears were officially listed as threatened We are also working to end the import to take the species off the Endangered under the Endangered Species Act in of polar bear trophies. The threatened Species List in 2006. We are challeng- May—thanks in large part to more than species listing of polar bears closed the ing the delisting in the U.S. Court 108,000 public comments in favor of loophole in the Marine Mammal Protec- of Appeals, and at the same time are the listing generated by Defenders and tion Act that Safari Club International pursuing a relisting petition. partner group Care2.com—but the Bush had secured in the 1990s to allow hunters In June, in answer to our petition, the administration claimed the animals to import parts of polar bears as trophies. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed that should not get the normal protections But the group is suing to maintain this our evidence showed that the agency must afforded to other species under the act. loophole, which, since it was put in place consider relisting the pygmy owl. In the We have challenged this assertion, and in 1994, has resulted in the U.S. import of months ahead, we will be working to make taken other actions to avert potential more than 900 polar bear heads and hides. sure that this species regains the protection perils to polar bears. Defenders and other conservation groups it never should have lost.

Staff profile Caroline Kennedy, senior director for field conservation

Like many conservationists, Caroline National Park. “So I jumped right into the fire,” she recalls. “I was answer- Kennedy was first drawn to the colorful, ing phones and fielding questions all day long.” musical fauna of the skies. As a young girl Since then, Kennedy has steadily moved up the ranks and she is now living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., the senior director for field conservation. Most of her work these days is Kennedy found herself wandering the golf focused on wolves and bird conservation. This year, Kennedy played a course that spread beyond her backyard. central role in Defenders’ efforts to protect Alaska’s wolves—travelling “My siblings were older than me, so I had repeatedly to Alaska to bolster our attempt to pass a ballot initiative to come up with ways to occupy myself,” banning the aerial shooting of wolves by private hunters in the state, Kennedy says. “I had a lot of time and the and spending countless hours on Capitol Hill buttonholing legislators to golf course was there and it was a good advance the Protect America’s Wildlife (PAW) Act. place to bird.” Defenders is well known for its wolf conservation work, and Kennedy She dreamed of going to Cornell hopes that one day the organization’s efforts on behalf of birds will University for its famous ornithology lab. That particular dream also be as visible. She is particularly concerned about the impacts of did not come to pass, but Kennedy eventually studied biology at pesticides on birds. “People think Rachel Carson came along and all that James Madison University and afterward she earned a graduate changed. It didn’t,” Kennedy says. degree in environmental planning from the University of Virginia’s While DDT and other harmful pesticides have been banned in the architecture school. United States, these chemicals are still used in other countries that migra- Kennedy was working as a planner in rural Virginia after graduate tory birds visit. And here at home, we are now using different chemicals school when she saw an ad in The Washington Post for a wildlife that may have devastating effects on birds. One pesticide, carbofuran, was organization. “Even though it didn’t name the organization, I knew it finally proposed for removal from the U.S. market by the Environmental was Defenders,” Kennedy recalls, “and I thought, ‘oh, that would be a Protection Agency last year, in part because of Kennedy’s efforts. great place to work!” While her work with Defenders keeps her busy, she still finds time She started in 1993 as the assistant to the vice president for for birding—often at wildlife refuges. “One of my goals is to visit all the operations. Two years later, she moved into a position in conservation national wildlife refuges,” she says. “I’ve only been to 100 or so, so I have programs—on the day that wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone about 450 more to go.”

Caroline Kennedy © Charles Kogod/Defenders of Wildlife 2008 annual report 13

Polar bears © Norbert Rosing/ National Geographic Stock 14 Defenders of Wildlife

Providing Solutions

At Defenders, our work goes beyond simply countering threats. We also work Easing the scale test with about 10,000 sheep grazing Presidential Transition in the heart of wolf country. to bridge gaps between For eight years we battled the Bush admin- From June to October, our four-person landowners, business owners, istration as it systematically attempted to field crew worked with sheepherders to legislators, policymakers and dismantle our framework of conservation keep livestock and wolves safely apart laws and policies. In 2008, anticipating by using livestock guard dogs, radio conservationists, and to find the change of administrations and the new telemetry to monitor wolf locations and commonsense solutions to opportunities this provides, Defenders’ movements, noise makers and spotlights conservation challenges. experts prepared a report and a series of to scare wolves away, and temporary elec- white papers outlining steps the new presi- trified corrals to protect sheep at night. dent should take to renew and strengthen The project was a great success—only one America’s commitment to conservation. sheep was killed and no wolves were lost. The report—Wildlife Conservation The project helped demonstrate the Agenda for the Next Administration— effectiveness of nonlethal methods of highlights seven broad promises we would preventing wolf predation. Rancher Mike like to see made and kept by the Obama Stevens of Lava Lake Land and Livestock administration. These include: a promise said, “Thanks to Defenders, we all just to protect our treasured conservation laws pulled off what I think is a remarkable like the Endangered Species Act and Clean accomplishment, which was grazing a Water Act; a promise to become a world band of 1,000 sheep for a month in the leader in dealing with the causes and immediate daily presence of a wolf pack impacts of global warming; a promise to with no losses of sheep or wolves.” end the manipulation of science that was In September we released a guide that a hallmark of the Bush administration; details methods of reducing conflicts and a promise to responsibly manage our between humans and wolves. This federal lands. publication—Livestock and Wolves: A The report and the accompanying white Guide to Nonlethal Tools and Methods papers provide detailed guidance for the to Reduce Conflicts—is a compendium Obama administration on repairing the of proven strategies. From detailing damage done by its predecessor and restor- the proper disposal of dead animals, to ing America’s environmental leadership. explaining the use of livestock guard dogs, fencing and fladry, the publication serves Working with Ranchers as a ‘how-to’ guide for ranchers across the Defenders has worked for years to build country to replicate the methods we have bridges to the ranching community, successfully used in places such as the Big starting with our successful programs Wood River Valley.

Top: Wildlife Conservation to compensate ranchers for losses from Defenders is grateful to the Liz Clai- Agenda for the Next predators and branching out more recently borne and Art Ortenberg Foundation, the Administration to our efforts to help these ranchers avoid Sand Dollar Foundation, the Wilburforce such losses. In 2008 we began an exciting Foundation, the Wendy P. McCaw Foun- Above: Livestock and Wolves, a Defenders’ guide for ranchers new project with livestock producers and dation and the Sea World Busch Gardens on reducing conflicts with government officials in the Big Wood Conservation Fund for their support of predators. River Valley in Idaho. The plan was to put projects that keep wolves alive by prevent- some of our proactive methods to a large- ing predation on livestock. 2008 annual report 15 A Defenders field crew worked with sheepherders in Idaho’s Big Wood River Valley to help keep livestock and wolves safely apart. © Jesse Timberlake/Defenders of Wildlife

board profile Alan Steinberg, past treasurer and board chair

A trip to Miami Beach in 1959 first whetted one of the country’s oldest investment partnerships) could be an asset to Defenders board member Alan Steinberg’s the conservation movement. He became treasurer of the Florida Audubon appetite for the environment. He and his wife, Society and subsequently treasurer of the Florida chapter of The Nature Sue, were on a vacation from their home in Conservancy. In 1985, a then-director at Defenders, author Hope Ryden, New York. “The big thing then was to be in the recruited him for Defenders’ board. big new hotel,” Steinberg recounts. “We were “I was very excited by the sort of things that Defenders did,” he says, almost instantly bored with that.” “and I felt my abilities could be well used there.” So they found a trip into the Everglades Over the past quarter-century, Steinberg’s skills and experience have and Keys guided by the Tropical Audubon been central to Defenders’ ability to accomplish its mission. “Any good Society. “On the first day out the guide would say ‘oh, look over nonprofit needs a board that can provide top-rate financial advice and there, there’s a great blue heron’ and we would look and see nothing,” oversight,” says Rodger Schlickeisen, Defenders’ president, “and we’re Steinberg recalls. “Not only could we not identify the bird, we couldn’t grateful to Alan for so generously providing that.” even see it,” he says. But that didn’t last long. “After two days we were Among other milestones, Steinberg played an important role in the pointing out frigate birds to the guide.” inception and oversight of Defenders’ program to compensate ranchers This was a turning point for the Steinbergs, who started to pursue for cattle losses due to wolf predation—a program that has special attrac- interests in birds, plants and the environment in general. In 1978 they tion to him, given his background. moved from New York, where Steinberg had become a trustee of the “The compensation program appealed to me because I am basically Scarsdale Audubon Society, to Florida. There, Steinberg’s friend, Robert a financial person, and this seemed to me a solution that would work,” Kelley, who was a mathematician like Steinberg and also the president of Steinberg recalls. And so it has. the Tropical Audubon Society, encouraged him to join the board. The wildlife that first captivated his interest in nature still inspires This introduction to organized work for the environment got Steinberg Steinberg. He and Sue are still active birdwatchers, though, he says, “the thinking about how his background in math and finance (he still heads 5:30 a.m. starts are not quite as frequent as they used to be.”

Alan Steinberg photo courtesy Alan Steinberg 16 Defenders of Wildlife

A jaguar image taken as part of Defenders’ conservation incentive program in Sonora, Mexico. Photo courtesy Northern Jaguar Project research projects and outreach activities in To encourage the participation of private the local community. The jaguar guardians landowners, the project provides incen- also work with ranchers to proactively tives for restoring and protecting panther reduce conflicts between domesticated habitat and saving agricultural lands. animals and jaguars, and lessen the loss of both. We expect these activities will help Safeguarding Sea Otters shift the local perception about jaguars One of the most charismatic marine from that of a liability to an asset, and mammals, the sea otter is both cute and help bolster the cat’s ability to migrate cunning. But due to loss of habitat and northward and repopulate the southwest- food, and the prevalence of pollution, sea ern United States. otters continue in some places to struggle Helping Jaguars in the to recover from the fur trade that nearly Borderlands Pulling the Florida wiped them out in the 19th century. North America’s largest cat species, Panther Back from To bring more attention and funding the jaguar once ranged throughout the the Brink to this creature, Defenders partnered southwestern United States. Habitat loss Historically the Florida panther roamed with Philippe Cousteau to promote and hunting have pushed the cats to the across the Southeast, but today only the state’s tax check-off campaign. We edge of extinction here, but jaguars are about 100 of these extraordinary cats are distributed posters and broadcast radio still found in northern Mexico. To safe- left. The only known breeding population ads to encourage California taxpayers to guard these remaining North American is in the southern end of Florida, but even use the sea otter conservation check-off jaguars, Defenders has worked with there their position is tenuous. A popula- box on their income tax forms. We also an international coalition to purchase tion and housing boom has gobbled up held a press conference with a member of 45,000 acres for a jaguar reserve in panther habitat and increased the number the California assembly to commemorate Sonora, Mexico. We have also created an of panthers killed on roads. The cats the sea otter fund reaching more than incentive program to encourage ranchers urgently need protected, interconnected $250,000 in donations, which ensures and other residents to protect the species habitat to move northward and return to the check-off box will be included on the as its population grows. their historic range. state’s tax form next year. The incentive program rewards Sonora In 2008, Defenders and a coalition We are also pressing for passage of landowners for pictures of jaguars and of conservation groups and landowners the Southern Sea Otter Recovery and other wild cats on their land. Defenders formed the Florida Panther Protection Research Act in the Congress, which supplies motion-triggered cameras and Program. The program will identify would provide $5 million each year for five places them in locations the cats are likely perhaps as much as 2.5 million acres of years to support important research on the to frequent, and local cowboys check significant contiguous panther range. health and recovery of California’s sea otter the cameras once a month. Ranchers are The program will also establish a fund population. In April, our sea otter expert, awarded $50 to $500 for photos of wild for acquiring and restoring habitat and Jim Curland, testified at a Congressional cats on their property, and in return, they building road underpasses for panthers. hearing in support of the bill. promise to protect the animals. The project is new, but already ranchers are excited to find the cats, and conservationists are Due to loss of habitat and food, and the prevalence building important relationships with ranchers in the area. of pollution, sea otters continue in some places to Additionally, we have established a jaguar guardian program, which pays struggle to recover from the fur trade that nearly young biologists to help with security on the jaguar reserve while assisting with wiped them out in the 19th century. Sea otter © Norbert Wu/Minden 2008 annual report 17 Pictures/National Geographic Stock 18 Defenders of Wildlife

Strengthening Conservation Planning

Wild creatures need places to live and roam, to find food and raise young. From public forests and wildlife refuges, to Promoting Wildlife private farm and forest lands, Viability on Public Lands the network of conservation Our nearly 450 million acres of national lands in the United States forests, national grasslands and other federal lands provide crucial habitat for needs to be strengthened roughly 10,000 plant species and 3,000 in the campaign, we launched the “Your and expanded. Defenders animal species, from the grizzly bear to Lands, Your Wildlife, Your Story” contest, is working with government the pine marten. For decades, federal rewarding people for writing compel- forest managers were required to maintain ling essays about their experiences with wildlife managers, highway stable, healthy populations of wildlife in wildlife on federal lands. We also crafted planners, land trusts and our national forests and balance the needs and released a series of public-service ads other stakeholders to develop of multiple users—from hikers and hunt- encouraging people to take greater owner- ers to livestock grazers and loggers. But ship over public lands. strategies to protect the places in the past eight years, the Bush admin- wildlife calls home. istration tilted public-land management Engaging Land Trusts toward extractive uses such as drilling and No matter how well we protect and mining, and away from wildlife. enhance public land for wildlife, fully In response to this retreat from science- safeguarding biodiversity requires the based management, Defenders in 2008 cooperation of private landowners as well. launched “Your Lands, Your Wildlife,” a Many conservation-minded private land- project supported by the William and Flora owners turn to local land trusts to help Hewlett Foundation to secure permanent them protect and restore their properties. protections for wildlife on public lands. Land trusts therefore play an important The keystone of this campaign is the role in maintaining healthy wildlife PhotograPhy: © www.joelsartore.com your lands, your wildlife, your STORY America’s Wildlife Heritage Act, legisla- populations everywhere. tion that would restore and strengthen the To assist trusts in their work, we created requirement to maintain viable wildlife the Living Lands program. This program, Postcard for Your Lands, Your Wildlife, Your Story campaign populations on federal lands. In 2008, we a partnership between Defenders and the laid the groundwork for this legislation, Biophilia Foundation, provides technical and we expect it to attract broad support and financial assistance and training to in the new Congress. land trusts. In 2008 we awarded $50,000 We have also begun working directly in small grants to land trusts nationwide with federal officials on their land- for innovative projects that will have a management planning to ensure that significant impact on biodiversity. they strengthen protections for wildlife. We also provided workshops on wild- And to encourage public involvement life conservation and economic benefits at land trust gatherings around the country. And we secured a $90,000 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to create workshops on biodiversity for land trusts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Pronghorn near drilling rig in the 2008 annual report 19 Pinedale, Wyoming area. © www.Joelsartore.com

board profile Barry R. Noon, board member

Some of board member Barry Noon’s earliest Humboldt State University before turning to research at the nearby U.S. memories of nature revolve around fishing Forest Service research station. There, he studied the effects of forestry trips with his father in Pennsylvania, where practices in old-growth forests on fish and wildlife. “That’s where I first he grew up. His dad taught him catch-and- began to work on spotted owls and that has carried on to this day,” Noon release fishing—which wasn’t common back says. “I’m still working on spotted owls and the connection between then. “That was always a practice my dad management policy and science.” had,” Noon recalls, “to put the fish back and It was his work with spotted owls that brought Noon together with treat them respectfully. That really had an Defenders of Wildlife. When asked to join Defenders’ board, he readily impact on me.” agreed. “I believe in the mission of Defenders,” Noon says. “Wildlife and As did the quiet places his dad would find for them to spend a morning nature don’t have a voice of their own, so they need someone to intervene on the river. “My dad would always hike about an hour before starting to and I think Defenders does a remarkable job at that.” fish so he wouldn’t run into any other fishermen. I still do that today when So for the past eight years—as Noon has continued to teach the I fish, so I can have that same sense of solitude.” next generation of ecologists as a professor at Colorado State Univer- This connection to nature profoundly impacted Noon, and he went sity—he has also provided Defenders with expert guidance on national on to study ecology in graduate school. He earned a doctoral degree forest and imperiled species issues. His knowledge has proven invalu- at the State University of New York in Albany, doing field work on forest able to Defenders as we work to safeguard wildlife on public lands by birds in Vermont and Tennessee. After a teaching stint in upstate New restoring and strengthening viability standards dismantled by the Bush York, Noon began working as a research ecologist at Patuxent Wildlife administration. Research Center in Maryland. It was here that he transitioned to studying “Viability standards and good management act as a safety net prior to the effects of forestry practices on birds—which has been central to his the application of the Endangered Species Act,” Noon says. “It’s forward work since that time. looking. It’s precautionary. It just makes good sense that we intervene on In northern California, he taught wildlife management techniques at behalf of species before they become severely at-risk.”

Barry Noon photo courtesy Barry Noon 20 Defenders of Wildlife

Implementing State A desert tortoise perilously close to a pronghorn to common ducks and geese, Wildlife Plans highway in California. © Krista Schlyer/ depend on this habitat. Wayfarerphotography.com To broaden conservation efforts, Sadly, budget cuts, political interfer- Defenders helped create the State and ence and neglect have degraded these Tribal Wildlife Grants program. This lands over the past few decades, and espe- program, which receives annual funding cially over the past eight years. Defenders’ from the federal government, has helped refuge program is working to highlight state and tribal lands managers expand both the importance of the refuge system their focus from game and endangered and the problems that continue to plague species, to the proactive protection of it, in hopes of strengthening this crucial all fish and wildlife. lifeline for wildlife. The program required all states to create In 2008, Defenders staff authored a State Wildlife Action Plans to qualify for coalition report detailing the challenges federal funding. Now that the plans are facing our refuges. The report, Keeping finished, Defenders is working with states Every Cog and Wheel: Reforming and to effectively implement the plans.A nd we Improving the National Wildlife Refuge will be using them as a platform for coordi- System, offers concrete recommendations nated nationwide planning to help wildlife for the new administration on actions adapt to the effects of global warming. needed to strengthen the refuge system. In 2008, we worked closely with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation protecting habitat Commission in developing a blueprint for from highways strategic conservation within a sustainable Our database went live in June to help America’s car culture poses a significant economy. The blueprint is meant to help people track and map actions such as threat to wildlife. Our four million miles the state consider environmental, social habitat restoration, species reintroduction of roads and 200 million vehicles create and economic factors when making land- and invasive species removal, as well as habitat fragmentation and dangerous use decisions. We have also been working land acquisitions, conservation easements crossings in almost every corner of our on a joint project with LandScope America and research projects. The site features country. Fragmentation and road kills to create a national map of conservation maps and a search engine that make it have contributed to the endangerment priority areas defined by the State Wildlife simple to pinpoint who is working on of many species, including the Florida Action Plans in 30 states. The map will a particular issue in a particular region. panther, grizzly bear, Sonoran pronghorn become part of LandScope America’s Web It also highlights projects that need and desert tortoise. site and part of our conservation registry funding or volunteers, and categorizes Our Habitat and Highways campaign site. Defenders is grateful to the Doris Duke projects according to funding types and has two main objectives: reduce the current Charitable Foundation, the Florida Fish purposes—climate-change-centered impact of roads on wildlife by creating and Wildlife Conservation Commission, work, for example. safe wildlife crossings, and reduce future the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and Defenders thanks the Doris Duke impacts by incorporating conservation the Wildlife Conservation Society for their Charitable Foundation, Dr. Benjamin principles into transportation planning. In support of this work. Hammett, the M.J. Murdock Charitable 2008, we produced The $61 Million Ques- Trust, the Oregon Department of Fish and tion: How Can Transportation Enhance- Launching a Wildlife and a host of other partners and ments Benefit Wildlife? We are using this Conservation Database donors for their support of this project. report to publicize an underutilized federal From a streamside restoration project program that could provide millions of in Colorado to tidal basin restoration in Enhancing National dollars each year for conservation projects. Washington state, field programs across the Wildlife Refuges And to teach tomorrow’s drivers and citi- country just acquired a powerful new tool. With more than 540 units around the zens about wildlife and roads, we created This year, Defenders launched an online country, our national wildlife refuge the Watch out for Wildlife Fun Book and a database, www.conservationregistry.org, system is the most extensive network teacher’s guide to accompany it. Our hope that tracks and maps conservation work so of lands in the world set aside specifi- is that this children’s activity book will conservationists can see how our collective cally for fish and wildlife conservation. plant the seed early that wildlife and cars efforts fit together. Countless species, from the rare Sonoran don’t mix. 2008 annual report 21

Defenders is working to highlight both the importance of the national wildlife refuge system and the problems that continue to plague it, in hopes of strengthening this crucial lifeline for wildlife.

Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado © Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures/National Geographic Stock 22 Defenders of Wildlife

Working Across Our Borders

While the major focus of our which revealed that roughly 78,000 wild Battling Invasive Species work is on wildlife in the United parrots are captured each year to be sold One of the greatest threats to biodiversity as pets. And of those, about 75 percent die in the United States is the importation States, we can’t afford to ignore before they even reach the buyer. Follow- of non-native plants and animals. Nearly issues beyond our borders. ing the release of our groundbreaking half of the species currently listed under From parrot trade to sea turtle report, a bill was crafted in Mexico’s legis- the Endangered Species Act are threat- by-catch to the spread of lature to address the issue. Largely due ened by these invasives, and the costs and to our advocacy, it passed unanimously. damages caused by these imported pests, invasive species, Defenders In October, President Felipe Calderón weeds and pathogens can reach more than is engaged in a variety of vital signed into law a ban on the capture and $120 billion each year. international wildlife issues. export of Mexico’s wild parrots. Despite the dangers, the United States This is an important victory—but does not currently require the thousands of not the end of our campaign. We must animal species imported into our country also convince consumers to stop buying annually to be screened for the risks they wild parrots, because as long as there is a may pose. To help change this, in 2008 we market, parrots will continue to disappear helped draft and testified in favor of the from the wild. Non-native Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act, a bill that would set up a new risk- Helping Sea Turtles screening system for imported animals. Mexico’s beaches host six of the world’s In April we co-hosted the first major seven sea turtle species, making this international workshop on the invasive coastal habitat crucial for the recovery species risks of the global wild animal of these imperiled creatures. To raise trade at the University of Notre Dame. A awareness about the importance of these summary of this workshop was provided beaches to turtle nesting success and to to delegates at a conference of the parties deter capture of or accidental harm to to the Convention of Biological Diversity turtles in fishing gear, Defenders has in Germany in May. The full proceedings been spearheading an extensive public are being published, and we will use them information campaign. The campaign to help shape international policy on the includes workshops with public officials trade of wild animals. and members of the fishing community; comic books, posters and turtle identifi- Aiding Amphibians A Defenders-sponsored poster urging Mexicans not to eat eggs of endangered sea turtles. cation guides; and radio shows aimed at Nearly one-third of all amphibian species highlighting the plight and habitat needs are imperiled by disease, climate change, of sea turtles. habitat loss and other factors, and Protecting Parrots In 2008 we printed a pocket version Defenders has launched a campaign to Twenty-two species of parrots and of our sea turtle identification guide address these threats. macaws make their homes in Mexico, and and distributed it throughout the Baja Through this campaign we will try to six of these are found nowhere else in the Peninsula. We also organized three major reduce the risks to amphibians in the United world. Sadly, Mexico’s incredible diversity sea turtle conservation workshops for States, including proposing tougher regula- of these colorful, intelligent birds has fishers in states along the Pacific Coast. tions on the import of non-native amphib- been devastated by the pet trade, and 11 These workshops informed participants ians that could pose a risk to native species. of its parrot species are already designated about the plight of sea turtles and taught In addition, in 2008 we proposed 13 species endangered. fishing methods that can prevent the from around the world for protective listing In 2007, Defenders released a compre- inadvertent killing of sea turtles, known under the Convention on International hensive report on Mexico’s parrot trade, as bycatch. Trade in Endangered Species. 2008 annual report 23

Educating and Mobilizing the Public

The work of our communications Blogging about Wolves in 82 Congressional district offices in 26 and outreach teams allows Launched last summer, our “My Yellow- states in support of the Protect America’s stone Wolves” blog (www.defenders.org/ Wildlife Act. Thanks in part to this effort, Defenders not only to educate wolfblog) has been taking the innovative we were able to get 130 representatives to the public about conservation, work of our wolf conservation team cosponsor the legislation. but also to harness public directly to the public. Defenders staff Broadcasting our Issues support and bolster our wildlife members write regularly about their experiences in the field, upload photographs Our Alaska wolf mini-documentary, advocacy efforts. of wolf sightings and discuss upcoming which exposes the brutal practice of events and news. More than 100 people a aerial killing of wolves, received wide day have been visiting the site, where they coverage in 2008. The video has been can share their thoughts, ask questions of viewed by more than 321,000 people our experts and learn how they can take on YouTube, and was used by CNN’s action to help protect wolves. Anderson Cooper and other broadcast journalists to expose Alaska governor and Enlisting Volunteers vice presidential candidate Sara Palin’s To give our members and others the position on aerial shooting. chance to participate directly in conser- Our award-winning public-service vation efforts, we created the Wildlife announcements on global warming have Volunteer Corps. The corps enlists volun- been aired 26,835 times, creating more teers to assist scientists, conservationists than 200 million opportunities for people and land managers in projects that make to learn about the effect of climate change an immediate difference for wildlife. on wildlife. Among other projects across the nation, in 2008 a group of corps volunteers Gaining Ground Online helped set up motion-triggered wildlife- Our Web presence, www.defenders.org, monitoring cameras near Interstate 90 continues to grow, with an expanding in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, to library of information about endangered help find suitable locations for wildlife animals, habitats and crucial issues crossings. In addition to capturing images such as global warming. Our wildlife of rare lynx and wolverines, the volunteers and habitat fact sheets, popular with in July got a groundbreaking image of young students, received more than six wolf pups—the first documentary 4.5 million unique views this year Top: A still from Defenders’ public-service evidence of a wild wolf pack in Washing- (www.defenders.org/animals). Our online announcement on global warming. ton since the 1930s, and evidence that our team also produces our engaging monthly

Above: An image of the first documented wild advocacy to return wolves to the state has newsletter, Wildlife eNews, which contains wolf pack in Washington in seven decades, been successful. breaking news on conservation issues, taken with the help of Defenders’ Wildlife We also mobilized scores of activists action alerts and interesting facts and Volunteer Corps. Photo courtesy of Conservation Northwest across the country in our work to protect stories about wild animals and the people Alaska’s wolves. We provided our citizen working to save them. In 2008, the number advocates with the tools and training of subscribers to Wildlife eNews passed the needed to organize meetings with staff 750,000 mark. 24 Defenders of Wildlife Annual Awards Dinner

On September 25, several hundred friends and supporters gathered with Defenders in Washington, D.C., to honor a distinguished group of conservationists. Jeff Corwin, a Defenders board member and host of Animal Planet and Discovery Channel television shows, served as our master of ceremonies. Defenders President Rodger Schlickeisen and Board Chair Victor Sher were joined by special guests—including Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)—to present our awards.

Defenders was pleased to present president of the Heinz Center for Science, the Wildlife Legacy Award to Bruce Economics and the Environment. Love- Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior under joy was one of the first to raise the alarm President Bill Clinton. Among his many about the threat global warming poses to achievements at Interior, Babbitt estab- biodiversity. lished 22 new national monuments, We honored Diana Hadley with our helped protect forests in the Northwest Spirit of Defenders Award for Citizen and oversaw the return of wolves to Advocacy. Hadley is president of the Yellowstone National Park. Northern Jaguar Project, and was instru- We presented the Spirit of Defenders mental in creating a 45,000-acre northern Award for Public Service to Rep. Norm jaguar reserve in Sonora, Mexico. Dicks (D-Wash.), a longtime champion The evening, which was co-chaired of wildlife causes and a close ally of ours by Richard and Darcy Kopcho and in numerous Congressional battles. Richard and Sarah Pritzlaff, raised more Our Spirit of Defenders Award for than $400,000 for Defenders’ conserva- Science was given to Dr. ThomasL ovejoy, tion programs. 2008 annual report 25

Clockwise from top: Sen. Mark Udall and board chair Victor Sher (on left) join Rodger Schlickeisen (right) in congratulating wildlife legacy award winner Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior; citizen advocacy award winner Diana Hadley; science award winner Dr. Thomas Lovejoy; Rep. Norm Dicks (left), winner of the public service award, with Sue Schlickeisen and dinner cochair Richard Kopcho; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse; and master of ceremonies Jeff Corwin. Photos © Panoramic Visions Photography 26 Defenders of Wildlife Defenders on the Map A sampling of Defenders’ actions and achievements in 2008 ● Defenders’ offices

Anchorage, AK 1 Alaska 1 • Helped secure the listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whale as an endangered species. • Took legal action to protect polar bears from the effects of global warming. • Stopped passage of legislation introduced by Gov. Sarah Palin that would have eliminated scientific requirements for establishing predator control programs.

2 Arizona • Helped stop a proposed highway bypass through the ecologically rich and fragile San Pedro River Valley. 16 • Coordinated and sponsored Dia De Los Lobos, Canmore, AB a Tucson event celebrating 10 years of Mexican wolf recovery that involved 40 organizations and more than 1,000 attendees. Portland, OR 3 California 10 • Lobbied successfully for a bill that created an 12 Bozeman, MT oil-spill clean-up and volunteer training program for inland waters and streams, where three times 7 more spills occur than in coastal waters. Boise, ID 15 • Helped get legislation passed to establish a statewide program for the identification and protection of wildlife corridors. • Pushed for and secured passage of landmark Sacramento, CA legislation promoting smart growth as a key 3 Denver, CO Washington, D.C. strategy for reducing the emissions that contribute 8 to global warming. 4

4 Colorado 2 • Helped protect the reintroduced lynx population Tucson, AZ from logging and resort developments. 13 5 Delaware and New Jersey • Submitted a second petition to the U.S. Fish St. Petersburg, FL and Wildlife Service to list the red knot under the Endangered Species Act due to continued population decline. • Lobbied for passage of a state law in New Jersey to enact a moratorium on harvesting horseshoe crabs, a staple for the imperiled red knot on its Delaware Bay feeding grounds. 17 Mexico City 2008 annual report 27

6 Florida 12 Oregon • Collaborated with landowners to • Helped develop a climate change create a Florida panther protection adaptation strategy for the state’s Anchorage, AK plan in southwest Florida. fish, wildlife and habitat. • Helped lead a successful effort to reauthorize the Florida Forever Act, 13 Texas the largest land acquisition program in the country. • Supported research to assess the population status of and evaluate • Launched a program to reduce suitable habitats for Louisiana black artificial beachfront lighting to bears. prevent disorientation of nesting and hatchling sea turtles. 14 Vermont 7 Idaho • Provided funds to help build road underpasses at one of the state’s • Worked to protect the last remaining most important and vulnerable stronghold for fishers in the Rocky amphibian crossings. Mountains from logging and trapping. • Hired and equipped a field crew to 15 Wyoming Canmore, AB protect sheep in Big Wood River • Joined a legal effort to stop Valley, an area of nearly 1 million inappropriate feeding of elk on the acres where more than 10,000 National Elk Refuge. sheep graze in habitat shared by Portland, OR several wolf packs. • Helped stop oil and gas development in the Wyoming Range, which contains some of the best lynx Bozeman, MT 8 Kansas habitat in the greater Yellowstone area. 14 • Assisted with the state’s first black- footed ferret reintroduction effort. Boise, ID 16 Canada 9 Kentucky • Stopped a plan by the Alberta government and University of Alberta • Awarded a Living Lands grant to 5 to capture and kill wolves to boost Sacramento, CA the Kentucky Natural Lands Trust to elk numbers for hunters. develop forest easement and carbon Denver, CO Washington, D.C. sequestration-based forestry models • Helped convince the government of 9 in the southern Appalachians. Alberta to formally adopt the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan, which now 11 awaits funding and on-the-ground 10 Montana action. Tucson, AZ • Worked to protect key wolverine denning areas from unregulated 17 Mexico snowmobile recreation and to convince the state wildlife agency to • Helped complete the 47,000-acre reduce wolverine trapping. Northern Jaguar Reserve to protect the world’s northernmost remaining • Assisted the Fort Belknap Indian St. Petersburg, FL population of wild jaguars. Reservation in expanding its bison 6 herd by acquiring grazing leases to • Secured enactment of a bill that an additional 7,500 acres. bans the capture of wild parrots throughout Mexico. • Helped convince the state wildlife agency to drop its proposal to open a new swift-fox trapping season.

11 North Carolina Mexico City • Won a court-approved settlement increasing protections for nesting shorebirds and sea turtles on Cape Hatteras National Seashore. 28 Defenders of Wildlife Financial Report

In 2008, Defenders of Wildlife’s 576,000 members and other supporters contributed $31 million for wildlife and wildlife habitat. Law firms, broadcast media outlets and others generously donated their time and expertise. While support from individuals and foundations remained strong, overall income decreased from the previous year largely because of a decline in investment income. Whether in the field, the courts or on Capitol Hill, it is the steadfast support of our donors that allows Defenders to sustain its programs and public education efforts.

Our tax returns for past years may be found on our Web site: www.defenders.org/tax_forms

(Financial statements audited by Rogers & Company PLLC.)

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES (in thousands of dollars)

SOURCES OF FUNDS 2008 2007 2008 Uses of Funds Grants and contributions 27,040 24,656

Bequests, trusts, and split interests 1,991 3,782 Program and support services 90% Income from investments (2,681) 1,673

Royalties and other earned revenues 2,834 1,683 Fundraising 10%

Contributed services 1,918 3,360

Total Revenues 31,102 35,154

USES OF FUNDS 2008 2007

Wildlife action 9,588 9,595 2008 Sources of Funds*

Law and legislation 5,277 5,261

Media and education 9,686 10,440 Grants and contributions 80% Contributed services 6% Constituency outreach 1,727 2,022 Royalties and other earned revenues 8% Fundraising 3,506 4,265 Bequests and trusts and split interests 6% Management and general 4,874 3,087

Total Expenses 34,658 34,670

Change in net assets (3,556) 484 * For the pie-chart illustration, we have excluded the negative loss in investments in the development of the percentages. Net assets, start of year 22,043 21,559

$25,000-49,999 Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund: Sunshine Fund Benovia Winery Mrs. W. L. Lyons Brown The Bullitt Foundation Commission for Environmental Cooperation Earth Friends Wildlife Foundation The Everglades Foundation, Inc. Evil Shenanigans, Inc. Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission K & L Gates LLP Dwight and Kimberly Lowell Terry C. and William C. Pelster SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund Vic and Lee Sher Ronald Stone Uncommon Goods Olga Whipkey

$10,000-24,999 America Foundation AMI, Inc. Barton Cotton, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Bass The Boeing Company The Brackpool Family Foundation Catherine D. Brown CGMK Foundation Irene Crowe, The Pettus-Crowe Foundation Maleah Crumpler Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Special Thanks Caroline D. Gabel Marianne Gabel Liberty Godshall and Edward Zwick To Our Contributors Dr. Maureen Hackett and Mr. Roman Oliynyk Barbara C. Hall The donors listed on $100,000+ Wilburforce Foundation Julie and Parker Hall The Wyss Foundation Marianne Halle the following pages Biophilia Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Harding Educational and The William and Flora Hewlett Charitable Foundation generously supported our $50,000-99,999 Foundation Paul J. Hewgill Charitable efforts to protect wildlife The Humane Society of the United The Capital Group Foundation, Inc. States Coypu Foundation Dale Houle and habitat in fiscal Darcy and Richard Kopcho Fashion Accessories Benefit Ball Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation Adlyn L. Krom year 2008. Defenders Wendy P. McCaw Foundation Richard and Rhoda Goldman The MJ Murdock CharitableT rust Fund Winsome Dunn McIntosh of Wildlife gratefully The New York Community Trust Benjamin and Ruth Hammett Paul Michaels Resources Legacy Fund Park Foundation, Inc. Northrop Grumman acknowledges these Foundation Theresa A. Perenich Charitable Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife generous gifts, pledges Wallace Global Fund Trust Wildlife Habitat Policy Turner Foundation, Inc. Stephanie Freid Perenchio and and payments on pledges. Research Program Wildlife Conservation Society John G. Perenchio Working Assets/CREDO Gaye T. Pigott 30 Defenders of Wildlife

Judith Posnikoff $5,000-9,999 Jessie M. Harris Laura and Rutherford Seydel The Prentice Foundation, Inc. American Lands Alliance Susan Haseltine Charles E. Shepard in honor of Public Interest Communications, Mrs. Jean H. Bankier Evan C. Hoogs Chuck Shepard and Derry Inc. Stan and Alta Barer Amanda W. Hopkins Moritz Renewable Products, Inc. Beagle Charitable Foundation Reid Hughes Robert D. Siedle The Nora Roberts Foundation Richard G. Beman Joann Johnson Mrs. Mitchell J. Simon Gay Rogers Frances and Benjamin Benenson Jeanne Latcham Christopher Stadler Sadie Gift Fund of The Foundation, Inc. The Lawless and Martin Families State of California Community Foundation Dr. Mark Box in memory of Michelle Lawless State of Montana Serving Boulder County Margot Moore Brinkley Barbara Long Howard and Cara Stirn Jean H. Sager Carl and Susi Brown Edith W. MacGuire Judi and Howard Strauss Sand Dollar Foundation California Wolf Center Mary Ann Mahoney Foundation Frances V.R. Seebe Trust Mr. and Mrs. Grant L. Cambridge Margaret A. Maw Gary Stringer Jack Shuck The Keith Campbell Foundation Thomas F. McCrea Lee and Marty Talbot Virginia Splitt Lisa C. Caplan Messengers of Healing Winds J. Holley Taylor Alan and Sue Steinberg Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation Thompson Smitch Consulting Mark and Joan Strobel Foundation Monterey Fund Richard D. Urell Michael and Amy Tiemann John W. Dayton The Oregon Zoo Foundation Nancy Ventresco Christopher Tower Richard Dennis M. Piuze Foundation Dela White Kathryn L. and Robert Vizas EDN, Inc. The PMA Group Wildlands Alexander Watson The Fanwood Foundation PNC Bank The World Parrot Trust Phil and Ellen Whitaker Adelaide Park Gomer Public Interest Data, Inc. Mr. Michael J. Zak and Wildlife Foundation of Florida, Carolyn and Gerald Grinstein Doris and Neil Ratner Mrs. Roxanne Zak Inc. Nancy Grylls Ray Rowe 1988 Trust for Animals Tamara Zelinski Rosalie Williams Rosana Guimaraes REI Anonymous (9) Anonymous (4) Tacy Weeks Hahn Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Resnick Gary and Lesley Hammond Rodger and Vicki Sant Founders Thomas Hansen Fund in honor of Bruce Babbitt and Tom Lovejoy

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$2,500-4,999 Lynn M. Koons Raymond Angelo Pamela Bowes-Davis Mary Astor Kathy Lanterman and Julie Antonich John Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Augustyn Rebecca Woodruff George N. Appell Eleanor Briggs Marlow S. and Barbara Baar Philip A. Lathrap Russell Atha Jessie Brinkley and Bruce Bunting The Baobab Fund Charles Laue Elizabeth Atterbury Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden The Clara G. and Alben F. Bates David W. Lewis, Jr. Babye O. Baggett Diane Brodie Foundation Liese Leyrer-Potts Christopher Bailey Karen Brodie Battelle NW Laboratories Crozer W. Martin Janet Baines Lois Brounell David and Anne Bernstein Dr. and Mrs. James W. Matthews Patricia Baker Ronn Brourman Mr. and Mrs. John Bierwirth Ruth and Tom Meehl Mr. and Mrs. James V. Bala Betty Brown Edward P. Browne Denny Miller Associates, Inc. Drs. John and Barbara Balser Gary Brown Terri and Ted Bumgardner Mrs. F.L. Moore Eva Baranek Peter G. Brown Buy-Global The Moore Charitable Foundation, David and Araceli Barclay Phillip and Nancy Brown Marilyn Callaly Inc. Kim Bass Jeffrey Bruninga Joan Cambray and Chuck Hansen MSHC Partners Harold J. Bauer Linda Bukowski Constance Campanella Names in the News Frederick Bear David Bundy Care2.com, Inc. National Geographic Society Ruth Beckner Mary Bunting Marta Chase Martin and Tanagra Netsky Joseph Paul Belli Charles O. Burgess Mrs. Franklin M. Cist Alice R. Neuhauser and Dalice Benge Robert Burhans Peter M. Collery Thomas R. Conroy Margaret M. Bennett Joann Burke Convio Heidi Nitze Richard Bergmann and Dr. Kim Burrell and Crown Peak Technology Elizabeth W. Oberdorfer Denise Filakosky Dr. Paul Gutowski Custom Direct, LLC Kris Olsson Barbara Berman Sarah Bushong-Weeks Kimberly Davidson Port of Portland L. Best L.A. Bykowsky Edward Dawes QuadGraphics, Inc. Paul G. Beswick Douglas Cable Direct Mail Processors, Inc. Mrs. Paul Richards Phillip Biaggi Ben L. Campbell Stratchan and Vivian Donnelley Heather Richman Craig M. Bickerstaff Claire Campbell and Brian Makare Foundation Dr. Gary L. Robinson Peter Bickford Scott Campbell Karen Drayer Mrs. Chester Rogal Antoinette E. Bill Lorna Canfield Jeri L. Edwards Margaret Schink Sallie Bingham Steven L. Cantor and Jessie Jonas Gertrude Emerson Greg Sparks Edward H.R. Blitzer Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Casciato The Ettinger Foundation Ted and Jennifer Stanley Ellen Blumenkrantz Elaine C. Cassimatis Dr. L. Niki Erlenmeyer-Kimling Nancy Stephens and Rick Jane M. Bohlin Ines Castro Firsthand Capital Management, Rosenthal Eve Bolhm John and Theresa Cederholm Inc. Sue Ann Stephenson-Love Sarah Bonilla Marie-Therese Chaudoir-Tibbs Robert Friend Elizabeth M. Struve Elisabeth T. Bottler Erica Cheverton Mari H. George Patti Swope Doris Bouwensch R. Ver Gene Christiansen Lawrence Goelman and Catherine G. Symchych Virginia Cirica Margaretta Taylor Winkler C. Gosch and Virginia D. Chris and Robin Thompson Gosch Fund Irene Trautman Mary Jo Greenberg Kate and Brad Vogt Diana Hadley Wallick Family Foundation Romayne A. Hardy Douglas R. Walters and Leonore Harmon, Curran, Speilberg & Hoffman Walters Eisenberg LLP Colleen Wei Joy McLean Harris Joanna White The Merrill G. & Emita E. Winfield Foundation Hastings Foundation The HonorableT imothy E. and Ann Herring Wren Wirth Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hoguet, Wolf Recovery Foundation III Wolfensohn Family Foundation Audrine Honey Salvatore Fabrizio Zichichi Margaret E. Hough Anonymous (4) The Mary W. Harriman yellowstone workshop Foundation $1,000-2,499 Gage Hutchens In August, 16 President’s Council members from across the country Integral Mr. and Mrs. John H. Adams attended the 17th annual Wildlife Conservation Workshop in Yellowstone Robert and Harriet Jakovina Dr. Charles Ade National Park. The workshop gave participants a first-hand look at Defend- Mari Johnson Rodney Allain ers’ conservation work and, most notably, the return of wolves to the park. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle C. Jones Joseph Amodei Staying in the Lamar Valley at the Buffalo Ranch, the group was in a prime Karen Kilimnik Sonia Ruth Anderson Ceceile Klein Robert Angell location to view wildlife at close range.

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Jamie Rappaport Clark and Michelle Davis Gale Epstein Frontline Data Group Jim Clark Pam Davis The Karl G. Estes Foundation Jay Furman Dr. J. A. Clayman Helen Demes Carol and Dick Evarts Amanda Gannon Diane Clifford Jenny Dempster Ruth Ewing John J. Garand Jeffrey Clough Paris Dennard Jean Farmelo Jane Scott Garnett Colleen Coghlan Elizabeth Denning Rosetta Fatherree William Garrigues William Concidine Lisa Dennis-Valvo Leah Felt Pamela J. Garrison Lucille Conger Diamondback Direct William and Mary Ferris Kathleen A. Gates Anne Connors Carmine Dintino Margot Feuer Valerie Gates Mr. and Mrs. Charles Consolvo John A. Donovan Gary Fink Susan Geary E. Patricia Coppola Holly Doremus Jennifer Fisher Kathleen Geist Polley Cosgrove Joanne Dowless Dolores Fitchman Cheri George Kathleen Cover Kenneth Dowling Charles Follman Todd George Tony Crabb Amy Durland Vicky Foster Emil Georgi Creekcats Environmental Fund Ruth Eckert Douglas Fowler Kathleen M. Gill William Crowe Ellen Eckford Robert Fox Michael James Gilmartin Roy E. Crummer Foundation JoAnn and Bert P. Eder, Sr. Eileen Franke Elizabeth Gilpin Richard Culatta Simon Edison Foundation, Inc. Milton Frantz Mark Gittler Greg Cumber El Paso Corporation Dr. Lawrence Frateschi Lawrence Gleason, Jr. Hope Curtis Frederick Elkind Robert Freese Dr. Bonnie Glisson Janet Curtis Mark Ellefson Fauna Frey Regina Godwin W. David Dary Virginia Ellingen Elaine Frick Deborah Goldberg

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David A. Golden Chandra Jessee Gary and Patricia Marshall Louise Pearson Dr. Robert B. Goldman Robert Johnson Robert Marston and The Pereira Family Katherine L. Goolsby Vic and Marilyn Julian Associates, Inc. Dr. Theresa A. Perenich Jennifer Graham Winifred Kaebnick Marulli and Associates, P.C. Charles Peters Paula Graham Jayne Kalk Lola Mason Astrid O. Peterson, M.D. Lillian Grant Martin Karlinsky Robert Maxwell Bryson Phillips Susan Gray Ruth and Arthur Kaufman Shana McCabe E.A. Phillips The Green Business, LLC Bonnie Kay Susan McCarthy Alex Pierpaoli Greenberg Quinlin Rosner Steven Kazan and Judy Heymann Dr. Mike and Patricia McCoy Virginia Pierson-Turner Research, Inc. Kazan Fund Michael D. McCurry Susan Pimentel Lumina Greenway Nancy Keipefody Claude and Cynthia McDonald Plum Creek Foundation Boyce Greer Lisa Kim Jeanne McIlvaine Elise Pottick Paul T. and Mary Gregory Barbara Kinosky Bruce and Jane McLagan Marshall Priest Lee and Lulu Grodzins Dolores Kirchheimer Mimi and Stewart McMillen Siegfried Pueblitz John Gudat Dorothy O. Kirsch Kent McNew Dr. George B. Rabb Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest J. Kiser Martha Melton Richard Radoccia Robert Haight David & Cassandra Knowles Wendy Mendes Jean C. Rainoshek Philip Hallam The Kodiak Foundation The Janice and Alan Menken The Rapino Family The Hamill Family Foundation Walter Kosierowski Foundation Hans Ravenborg Hamilton Barksdale Brown Barbara Kramer Charles Merrill, Jr. Joan C. Read Charitable Trust C. Stephen and Pamella S. Kriegh Elizabeth Meuser Mark Honeywell Reed Joseph Hanon Vincent Kueffner Janet Meyer Vincent Reo Ruth Hardinger Garry Kuehn Mary Beth Meyers Paul Reubens Eric Harrah Nancy Kunes Wandra Miles Randolph Richardson Loraine Harris Peter La Rose Carol Minkin Marie Ridder Alexandra M. Harrison Bud Lackie Marylou Mitchell Anne Powell Riley Robert Harrison Shannon Lamb Douglas Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. Richard Robbins Mark Hartman Gary Landers Janet P. Montgomery Laurel O. Robinson Robert Hartman Joan E. Lane Diane E. Moss Marius Robinson Carl E. Haussman Stacey and John Lanzillotta Belva Moyta Joan Robles David Hayes Marianne Laouri Amy Joan Munich Alexis Roosa Aurbrey Haynes Pamela T. Lavin Beth Murphy Mary L. Rose Mary Hays Ruth S. Lawson Scott Murphy Karen Rothwell-Vivian Razelle Hecht Linda R. Lee Constance Murray H. Jean Rowley Judith Hemberger Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee Margaret Murray G. Ross and Lucie Roy Hennessey Family Foundation Hertha Lehmann Rita and Brys Myers Elinor Rust Cynthia Hicks-Orth Gregg Letizia Ellen Naegeli Patricia Ryan Janine Higgins and William Robert A. Leventhal Caterina and Lawrence Nelson Jonathan Sadowsky and Connie Easton Melvyn Levy Byron Nicas Fischer David Hiniker Susan Levy Lynn Nichols and Jim Gilchrist Anne and Satish Sanan Jane Hipp Carole Lewis Sheila Nicklas Greg Sater Julia B. Hirsch Stephen Lewis Gail Niebruegge David Sattinger Wulf Hirschfield, M.D. Myrna Libby Diane Nielsen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Savage Rick Hoffer Elizabeth Lindquist-Cook Dr. and Mrs. Ruprecht Nitschke Laurie J. Saxton Margaret Holmes Blake Lipham Bryan G. Norton Rodger and Sue Schlickeisen Steven C. Holtzman Evelyn Lister Martha O’Bannon Margaret Schlimmeyer Ann Holz Living Springs Foundation Misaki Miki Okimoto Joan F. Schmidt Nancy Hood Marilyn Lockhart James Oliver, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig Dr. Tyron Hoover Gloria Lonergan Gregory Olson Marian Schravesande Lynn Horan John Loughnane Christine and Edwin N. Ordway Shirley and Hazen Schumacher James Howard Maryanne Lovell Oregon Dept. of Geology and Robert F. Schumann Jean Howard Jolene Lu Mineral Industries Paul L. and Linda Schutt Lynn Huddleson Katherine Lukianov Susan Orenstein Rebecca Seeger Jeffrey C. Hulse Rhonda Luschen Martha Orton Dr. Helen C. Seline Roberta Humphreys Peter R. Lyman Peter and Jean Ossorio Betty Jean Sell William and Sylvia Hunsberger Tom Lyons Jim Owsley K.W. Seneca Howard Hunt Charles MacDonald Karl Pace E. Nicole Shaffer Michael Huwaldt Sharon Mahaffey Astra Palmer Adele Shambaugh The J & J Foundation Donald and Bonnie Maharam Barbara C. Parkening Fern Shellhase Dwayne Jackson Kevin Maloney Diane Parker Judith M. Shinn Elizabeth Jackson Mary H. Manita Dr. Susan Parlow William Shipley Fran Jenney Dortha Marquis Pasadena Community Foundation Margarete Shippee Rosemary and James Jepson Jacqueline Mars Michelle A. Peacock Ellin Simmons 34 Defenders of Wildlife

Diane Simon Arthur Vassy and Olga West Glen Communications, Inc. Dorothy Lieberman The Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation Velasquez-Vassy Western Environmental Law Freda Hall Lipmann Anabel J. Simons Grace Lyu Volckhausen- Center Margaret P. Maderer James Simpson TheT iger Baron Foundation Howard L. Marcou Jocelyn and Bill Sladen Dr. and Mrs. Fred Q. Vroom Marianne Marks James Sligar and Diana M. Sheila Walker Bequests and Estate Gifts Edward N. Markusen Sattelberger Elaine Walling and Louis Hecht Remilda Matacia Barbara M. Smith Denise Ward We honor the memory of the L. Emory Mattern Barbara Smith Mary G. Ward following individuals whose bequests Helen G. Mattern Dave Smith Clint Warmuth we received this fiscal year. These Stanley Metzger Earl Smith Garry K. Waterman legacy donors had included Jean M. Mitchell Kenneth Smith James C. Waugh Defenders of Wildlife as a beneficiary Harold R. Nelson Mabelle Jean Smith Robyn Weber in their wills or other estate plans. Bob R. O’Brien Anne C. Snyder Robert J. Weggel Their commitment and foresight M. Irene Petterson Susan Snyder Melvin J. Weig is protecting wildlife today—and Lynn Price Deb Soutar Carden Welsh will continue for years to come. Susan D. Roberts Viola Spalding William W. and Patricia L. Oddis M. Robinson Jon Spar Wessinger Fund of The Oregon Alice Arbaczawski Arleta Jo Rumpf Lev Spiro Community Foundation John F. Bailey William C. Russ Maria Staaf Michael and Jitka West Aubrey L. Best Charles Simms Nancy Staggers West Glen Communications Jerome Block Ursula Stankowski Elizabeth Standard Anna White Elizabeth M. Bralynski Vivian H. Stephan State of Oregon Environmental William J. Wicker Camillus Brua Susan Thorstad Quality Nicolette A. Wickman Florence Carpenter Florence Van Brussel Mary A. Staub Beth Wilkerson Christopher W. Canino Gertrude Walton Sharon Steele-McGee Mireille Wilkinson Edward Casselberry Stephen Werner Evelyn Steen Tonia Willekes Daniel P. Chester Evelyn Whaley David and Joan Steinberg in honor Roger Williams Sandra S. Crumet Katherine Yarosh of Dr. Bridget M. Brooke Archie D. Wilson Lisl Day Sandra E. Zwier Dennis Stepanovich Bessie L. Wilson Susan Day Anonymous (1) Alan Stephens Jack R. Wilson Edna M. Demicco Mary Ann Stevens Suzy Winchester Florence Dougherty Frances W. Stevenson Sandra L. Winn Nancy J. Dunn Wildlife Legacy Society-New Ed and Dottie Stimpson Nancy Hamill Winter Brian L. Farmer Members Gwen Stoughton Joanne Witty Elizabeth W. Forgey Robert C. Foster We are pleased to recognize and Heather Strange Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day thank the following individuals who Michaela Straznicka School Aura Mystery Frey Elizabeth L. Gerstley during this fiscal year notified us that Kevin Sullivan Laura Wypyski they are investing in wildlife’s future William P. Sutter Jeri Young Jean R. Gilliland Hilda Glanz by including Defenders of Wildlife in Susan J. Suwinski Ms. Linda Young their wills, trusts, retirement plans, Michael C. Swanson Verna Young Green Family Trust William H. and Vivien B. Groody charitable gift annuities or other Diane Sweeney Harriet Zaretsky legacy gifts. Swimmer Family Foundation Catherine Zoller-Edwards Harold J. Greenwald Elizabeth D. Hay Charles Gary Swint Anonymous (12) John Andes Barbara Tacker Aubrey Haynes Gale Henning Albert and Joan Baca Taishoff Family Foundation Mrs. Dianne Benner Contributed Services and Madeleine Henning David Tapscott Philip Blaustein Paul W. Taylor In-kind Gifts Jeanette Hickman Lyra Virginia Hobbs Catherine D. Boretos John Tepe Arizona Center for Law in the Valerie Lynne Boyum Thanksgiving Coffee John F. Hodgson, II Public Interest Anabelle Howard Rita Bramhall Susan R. Theiss Buy-Global William and Ann Buckmaster Heather Thomas Myna Hughes Earthjustice Carolyn L. Jagodits Kats and Linda Cannell Marion T. Thomas Faegre & Benson LLP Madelyn P. Carlin Janice K. Thompson Courtney Ann Jay Free Range Studios Dorothy A. Johnson Richard L. Carrothers Nancy Tichenor Google Piers and Carolyn Chance Kelley Torrey Rosemary V. Johnson Diane Hargreaves Lucinda Jones Phyllis Church The Honorable and Mrs. Russell Neil Levine Mary-Patricia Cottrell E. Train Susan D. Jones Meyer, Glitzenstein and Crystal Mary V. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Craig Helen Trendle Terry C. Pelster , Esq. Juanita Crowhurst Julia Tullis Eric R. Kindervater, Sr. Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw and Marion E. Kline Santiago Davila Chris and Dan Turner Pittman LLP Barbara Dickirson Franc JJ Vanderven Phyllis Kominek Southern Environmental Law Karen H. Kopriva Sara Fenwick-Bailey Felisa Vanoff Center Ingeburg L. Fisher Dr. Lelia Vaughan Ruth M. Kotsch

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Ginger Gebert George and Rosamond Leonard Linda L. Schmitzer Juanita Wilson Marjorie L. Gebhart Gloria Jean Lewis Louise Short Anonymous (12) Noel Gray Sharon E. Lowe Aurora G. Smith Trisha A. Green Eugene C. Luschei Marian B. Smith Herbert and Marion Haas Richard Alan Luther Mary Smith Workplace Giving Jennifer K. Hall Birnie McGavin Gloria F. Spencer Thank you to Gerald W. Harrier Levern Magglies Diann Stewart the many donors Charlotte Heldstab Patricia Malloy Virginia H. Stout who contributed Daryl Hoon Sally L. Marks Dan Sullivan to Defenders Madison Ierulli Arthur G. Milton Nancy Jean Taylor of Wildlife in Madeline Jacobs Megan Moffett Dr. and Mrs. B.D. Thaw 2008 through Carl E. Jacobson Helen Moody Pattie Thibert corporate, federal, Mary Ann Javinski Cecilia Nauck Robert H. and state, city and county workplace- Mrs. Evelyn E. Johnson Genia M. Nentwich Susan C. Thompson giving campaigns. Defenders is Jerome Johnson N. Lee Newman Jovita Tieso a founding member of Earth Mr. and Mrs. John N. Jones Ms. Carol Opria Edward Turner Share, a federation of America’s Janice H. and Harry P. Joslyn John and Linda Patton Abigail P. Van Alstyne leading nonprofit environment and Ruth K. Kane Ronald Petersen Mr. Lawrence E. Walz conservation organizations working Jim Kennedy Cheryl Phillips N. Joyce Weber together to promote environmental Sandy Kenyon Dave Provost Kirsten Weinoldt and education and charitable giving Reverend Eric R. King Gloria Ripple Douglas Miller through workplace-giving Catherine Krell Bruce C. Roberts June Weston campaigns. Michelle A. LaCroix Jeffrey E. and Pamela A. Rogers Laurel and James Whillock Our new CFC number is 10624. Linda A. Lawson Thelma Rebecca Roper James S. Wilson 36 Defenders of Wildlife

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PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Field Conservation Kassandra Kelly Wilson Simmons MARKETING AND Rodger Schlickeisen, Nina Fascione, Gina LaRocco Kelli Wilkerson CONSTITUENT Ph.D., President and Vice President Peter Nelson DEVELOPMENT Chief Executive Officer D’Anne Albers Sara O’Brien Human Resources Charles J. Orasin, Senior Jamie Rappaport Clark, Pelayo Alvarez Pine Roehrs Meja McKenzie, Director Vice President Executive Vice President Joshua Basofin Brianne Smith Mandi Hunt Patricia Probst Susan McDaid Anne Carlson Bruce Taylor Jolene Munch Inga Sedlovsky Matt Clark Katie Theoharides Membership Jim Curland Sara Vickerman Information Technology Karin Kirchoff, Kim Delfino Aimee Weldon Sajjad Ahrabi, Vice President COMMUNICATIONS Karla Dutton Trisha White Vice President Mark Brochman Cynthia Hoffman, Elizabeth Fleming Bill Hassell Zhabiz Chu Vice President Pamela Flick Science and Conservation Yensah Vega Amanda Clayton Brian Bovard David Gaillard Economics Emily Farrell Mark Cheater Lacy Gray Chris Haney, Ph.D., Wendy Josey Peter Corcoran Nilanga Jayasinghe Chief Scientist & Vice DEVELOPMENT Leslie Karp Kate Davies Caroline Kennedy President Jessie Brinkley, Vice Melissa Newman Charles Kogod Patricia Kiesylis Jean E. Brennan, Ph.D. President Claire Piason Catherine Lazaroff Mike Leahy Frank Casey, Ph.D. Diane Clifford Chiquita Smith Jennifer Lee Laurie Macdonald Aimee Delach Kati Dancy Linwood White Wil Lutz Craig Miller Timm Kroeger, Ph.D. Michelle Davis Erin McCallum Jim Pissot Anna McMurray Molly Farrell Online Marketing and James Navarro Jonathan Proctor Ann Felber Communications Heidi Ridgley Eva Sargent, Ph.D. Jim Luerssen Jeff Regen, Vice President Gina Schrader FINANCE AND Lidia Perez Christopher Burley Keely Sinclair ADMINISTRATION Janet Rupp Ryan Cree CONSERVATION Suzanne Stone Joseph A. Zillo, Senior Kimberly Tooher Sara Hoffman PROGRAMS Jeremy Terhune Vice President Drew Weiner Lara Koch Bob Irvin, Jesse Timberlake Kerry Fuller Katie White Leslie Magraw Senior Vice President Wade Willis Rebecca Orris, Ph.D. Bob Davison, Ph.D. Facilities and Bryan Snyder David Tucker International Administration GOVERNMENT Conservation Derek Smith, Director RELATIONS AND Conservation Law Peter Jenkins, Director Alva Ball EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Bob Dreher, Vice President Juan Carlos Cantu- Richard Barnhart Robert Dewey, & Gen. Counsel Guzman Charles Johnson Vice President Kara Gillon Alejandra Goyenechea Mitch Shockey Caitlin Balch-Burnett Aviva Horrow Mary Beth Beetham Erin Lieberman Land Conservation Finance Sara Chieffo Jason Rylander Noah Matson, Beth Christen, Scotty Johnson Brian Segee Vice President Vice President Marcia Lesky Sierra Weaver Rick Brown Sharon Levenberry Isra Pananon Allison Barra Srinivas Tom Migliorini Sandra Purohit Noah Kahn Ohunene Sheidu

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