U.S. intervention on behalf of endangered or threatened marine mammals and sea turtles caused marked population surges in more than three-quarters of listed species, a study unveiled Wednesday shows.
Read moreFour conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday accusing the Trump administration of failing to protect Africa’s vanishing giraffe population under the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreA species of rainbow-colored fish and the streams they’re found in across Virginia and West Virginia are both slated to receive federal wildlife protections by the Trump administration in response to litigation by conservation groups.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately protect endangered Canada lynx from being accidentally killed or injured by bobcat trappers, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreTwo wolf advocacy groups lack standing to challenge a federal policy barring prosecution of people who kill endangered animals but are unaware the animal was endangered, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA leaked memo from what conservationists say is the Justice Department advises the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to withhold or delay releasing records sought in Freedom of Information Act requests regarding implementation of the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreThe Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Forest Service, claiming its approval of 1,100 acres of logging in the Klamath National Forest near the Pacific Crest Trail will threaten protected salmon and owls.
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The Hoopa Valley Tribe sued the federal government again over the plight of the endangered coho salmon, claiming Wednesday that fishing management agencies are trying to skirt their own laws with this year’s salmon catch regulations.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday it will list the Atlantic pigtoe mussel as threatened and will give it critical habitat, given threats to the creature from development, agriculture, climate change and invasive species.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday questioned a federal judge’s decision to overturn a Justice Department policy against prosecuting people accused of killing an endangered animal unless it could be proved that the individual knew the animal was endangered.
Read moreA furry relative to minks and otters and native to the West Coast may get federal protection as threatened under the Endangered Species Act due to lost habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday.
Read moreThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has listed the chambered nautilus as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, citing demand for its shells as the main threat.
Read moreA California landowner scored a major court victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the government wrongly designated 56 acres of its land as critical habitat for the Riverside fairy shrimp.
Read moreA Massachusetts zoo must face Endangered Species Act claims over its treatment of two Asian elephants in the collection, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreRestoring protections to grizzly bears near Yellowstone National Park, a federal judge on Monday rescinded a 2017 rule by the Trump administration that allowed hunting of the endangered species outside of the park.
Read moreThe public comment period on the Trump administration’s move to overhaul the Endangered Species Act ends next week and if new rules are finalized, it could become harder to protect new species and guard those already under threat.
Read moreHawaiian cauliflower coral is one step closer to federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to the initial review released Wednesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service of a petition sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read moreFor over two decades, Oregon has regulated thermal pollution in rivers and streams using illegal standards. But at a hearing Tuesday, the federal and state governments said it will take another 12 years to come up with revised standards to protect threatened and endangered fish.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to change the status of the golden conure, an Amazonian bird related to the parrot, from endangered to threatened, and will allow for the import and export of the bird in certain cases following a settlement with the American Federation of Aviculture.
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