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From campus to the halls of Congress: One ESA Graduate Student Policy Awardee describes her experience

GSPA awardee Sarah Cuprewich shares her perspective on science policy and what it was like to participate in this year’s events.

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ESA Action Alert: Contact your senators to advocate to fund science agencies and programs

Call or email your senators and ask for strong funding levels for science agencies.

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The view from the Hill: One ESA Graduate Student Policy Awardee describes his experience

GSPA Awardee Raymond Erskine shares his perspective on science policy and what it was like to participate in this year’s events.

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Updates From ESA Leadership

Dear ESA Members, We, as Governing Board Members of ESA, in light of current events in our nation, with impacts that affect all of us locally and globally, write to you today to offer encouragement and to assure that there is a path forward.

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ESA Action Alert: Comment on proposed rescission of the Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm”

Earlier this month, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed a new rule that could limit the scope of Endangered Species Act protections. The agencies are accepting public comments on the proposed rule change until May 19, 2025. Background: Currently, the Endangered Species Act prohibits certain actions that “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot,…

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ESA & COP27: RINGO: A researcher’s guide to COP27

by Morgan Rogers There I was— my first time in Egypt and my first time attending the Convention of the Parties (COP), on a bus hurtling through Sharm El Sheik towards the convention center. Around me sat fellow researchers, diplomats, heads of NGOs, activists, and everyone else you could imagine attending an event like COP27. Crowds stepped off the various…

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ESA & COP26: Day 7 – Looking back at the Demonstrations

This is a guest post by Andrew Barton, who is an ESA member attending COP26 in Glasglow, Scotland. Barton is a forest and fire ecologist, a writer, and a biology professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. This post was originally published on Barton’s blog The World Is on Fire. All photos and videos are by Barton. by Andrew Barton The…

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ESA & COP 26: Al Gore is speaking, I’m listening (and writing)

This is a guest post by Andrew Barton, who is an ESA member attending COP26 in Glasglow, Scotland. Barton is a forest and fire ecologist, a writer, and a biology professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. This post was originally published on Barton’s blog The World Is on Fire. All photos and videos are by Barton.  by Andrew Barton…

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ESA & COP26: Day 1

This is a guest post by Andrew Barton, who is an ESA member attending COP26 in Glasglow, Scotland. Barton is a forest and fire ecologist, a writer, and a biology professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. This post was originally published on Barton’s blog The World Is on Fire. All photos and videos are by Barton.  by Andrew…

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