On May 11-17, 2025, Rocky Mountain Wild and our partners will host the 9th annual Colorado Endangered Species Week! This week is dedicated to providing educational events and advocacy opportunities to protect the planet and species at risk here in Colorado.
During this week, Rocky Mountain Wild and our partners organize speakers, fundraisers, direct actions, and other activities along the Front Range, with major events occurring in Denver and Wheat Ridge, as well as activities you can take part in from the comfort of your own home.
Join us for the events and for The Most Awesome Environmental Online Auction in the Front Range! All items in this auction have been donated by members of a green coalition (1% for the Planet, Certifiably Green Denver, Certified Green Lafayette, Climate Neutral Certified, The Conservation Alliance, Good Food 100, Green America, etc) or the item itself may replace a less environmental one.
Events for your favorite Colorado endangered species and places:
During Colorado Endangered Species Week, we’ll be focusing on a few of our important species or wild places, or a solution that protects our important species or wildly places here in Colorado. We will feature a suite of activities, including things to read, direct actions to take, and things to watch to help us learn about and advocate for our Colorado imperiled, threatened, and endangered species!
Get Wild About Wolverines, May 14
In 2024, Rocky Mountain Wild led our coalition’s successful effort to lobby state legislators to introduce and pass a bipartisan bill to authorize Colorado Parks and Wildlife to reintroduce wolverines to Colorado (SB-24-171 Restoration of Wolverines). This was a huge milestone in the effort to restore wolverines to Colorado.
Join us on May 14 for Get Wild About Wolverines to learn more about the species, the reintroduction effort, and how you can support it!
And join us for our Get Wild About Wolverines webinar where we will be joined by Rebecca Watters, the founder of the Mongolian Wolverine Project. This webinar is free, but space is limited. Register to save your spot.
Celebrate Colorado Public Lands Day, May 17
For Colorado Endangered Species Week, we’d like to celebrate Colorado Public Lands Day by talking about the importance of inclusion and equity in our public lands. Public lands technically belong to and benefit all of us, but certain populations have never felt welcome in our public lands. Others have never seen themselves represented and instead have seen themselves actively erased from the history of public lands.
Join us on May 17 for Celebrate Colorado Public Lands Day for more information and direct actions to take! Including a Colorado Public Lands Day Rally at the capitol!
Our cherished public lands are under attack. Politicians in D.C. are pushing efforts to sell off, privatize and undermine protections for the lands that define Colorado’s heritage and way of life.
That’s why Coloradans are gathering on Saturday, May 17, from 10-11:30 am, at the Colorado State Capitol, to rally together, raise our voices, and defend the public lands that belong to all of us.
Get Batty about Bats, May 17!
Colorado is home to 18 species of bats. And they face numerous threats in Colorado, such as habitat loss, climate change, and as of April 2023, White Nose Syndrome.
Join us on May 17 and Get Batty About Bats for more information and direct actions to take! Including our popular Evening Bat Conservation Event.
Join us for the 2025 Evening Bat Conservation Event in Wheat Ridge. We’re excited to host an evening bat walk with Aaron Sidder of Bat Conservation International on Saturday, May 17, in Wheat Ridge, CO. This family-friendly event fills up fast—registration is required to attend. Click here to RSVP and learn more.
Are you an environmental nonprofit that wants to partner for an event? Contact Robbin to set it up!
Colorado Endangered Species Week Partners:
This week can’t happen without the help of all our partners. If you are interested in becoming a Media Sponsor, a Resource Partner, an Event Partner, or a Sponsor, please check out our Sponsorship Packet and email Chris at chris@rockymountainwild.org with the type of partnership you would like to have this year.
For the Kids (and Kids at Heart):
Feel free to download any of our coloring pages! And if you love how it turned out, please send it to us and we’ll post it on our Instagram page!
- American pika coloring page
- Bighorn sheep coloring page
- Boreal toad coloring page
- Canada lynx coloring page
- Gray wolf coloring page
- Greater sage-grouse coloring page
- Gunnison sage-grouse coloring page
- Townsend’s big-eared bat coloring page
- Wolverine coloring page
- Colorado Parks & Wildlife coloring pages
Header image: Top row: American pika (imperiled, but not listed) courtesy of Will Thompson, USGS; boreal toad (state endangered) courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife; greater sage-grouse (state special concern) courtesy of Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management; Colorado River cutthroat trout (state special concern) courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife; least tern (state endangered) courtesy of Amanda Boyd, USFWS; Bottom row: burrowing owl (state threatened) courtesy of Ben Lawrence; kit fox (state endangered) courtesy of Kelly Rigby, Bureau of Land Management; clay-loving wild buckwheat (state endangered) courtesy of Langton Alicia, USFWS; longnose leopard lizard (state special concern) courtesy of William Bosworth, ID Department of Fish and Game. All images are public domain.