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Land Deal Could Destroy Texas Wildlife Refugee
July 08, 2026
According to a June 10, 2026 press release from the Center for Biological Diversity, tribal and conservation groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas to SpaceX. In exchange for these lands, SpaceX is giving 683 acres of private lands to the Service.
Under the law, any exchanges of wildlife refuge lands must result in net conservation benefits to both the individual refuge where land will be exchanged and the wildlife refuge system as a whole. The wildlife habitat that SpaceX is seeking to take ownership of has been degraded by SpaceX’s expanding operations and failed rocket launches.
The land deal resulting in more than 700 acres of a national forest is one of the largest exchanges of land in the refuge system’s history outside the state of Alaska. Read more here.
Care to help save this vital refuge from a trillionaire’s takeover?!
The Center for Biological Diversity has several Action Alerts that you, as a steward of the Earth, may wish to partake in. As Sister Dianne Bergant, CSA, often reminds us, “We are totally dependent on Creation.” In cases like this, it is depending on us to take action!
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