Policy

Call for Experts: Review the Draft United by Nature Assessment

Help NASEM review the United by Nature assessment report.

Voices from COP30: The First Week is Done — What Have We Seen?

By Astrid Caldas The crowds came. The Indigenous peoples staked their claims to representation and rights to land. The connection between biodiversity and climate change is a priority topic in this “Amazon COP”, as are synergies across the three Rio Conventions – which together address the interconnected challenges of climate change, desertification and biodiversity loss. The negative biodiversity impacts of…

Science on the Hill

ESA staff recently attended an event on Capitol Hill highlighting the importance of federal support for R&D

ESA Policy Brief

Recent actions ESA has taken in the science policy arena.

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Data and dialogue: ESA Graduate Student Policy Awardees describe their experience

Three students describe their foray into science policy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ESA Action Alert: Contact the House of Representatives to advocate to fund science agencies and programs

Call your Congressperson in the House of Representatives or send a short email asking them to request robust funding for federal science agencies.

ESA Action Alert: Contact your Member of Congress to advocate for science

President Trump’s FY26 budget request cuts research accounts across federal agencies that would devastate America’s scientific enterprise.

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,…