The last grizzly bear in California was shot in the Sierra Foothills, just outside of Fresno, in 1922, so it is a sad irony that the animal still adorns California’s state flag – a symbol of the state’s pride but also a reminder of its history of overmanaging wildlife to the detriment of predators and a natural ecological balance.
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Several fishing and conservation organizations brought a federal complaint Monday over the harm they expect to befall an already threatened species of fish from the Trump administration’s efforts to set new rules for the operation of major California water projects.
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The Nashville crayfish has an inordinately narrow habitat range. In fact, it exists in only one place in the world – the Mill Creek watershed located squarely in Nashville, Tennessee.
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In about 10 years the glaciers of Glacier National Park will be gone, scientists predict. They may take with them species that rely on clear, cold water, such as the meltwater lednian stonefly and western glacier stonefly – both listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreSave the Bull Trout, et al. sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in federal court, claiming its long-delayed Bull Trout Recovery Plan violates the Endangered Species Act.
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An environmental advocacy group filed a suit Monday against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, challenging its decision not to list the Joshua tree as a threatened species.
Read moreThe Animal Legal Defense Fund sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and his agency’s creatures in federal court, claiming they illegally undermined the Endangered Species Act through regulations.
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Pointing to its battle against an evasive species and threats posed by climate change, the Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday extended Endangered Species Act protection to a small, colorful fish found only in a handful of Tennessee counties.
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Migrating humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean got a bit of good news Tuesday as the Trump administration announced the designation of over 300,000 square nautical miles as new critical habitat to protect from ship traffic, oil spills and fishing gear.
Read moreA dozen species will not receive Endangered Species Act protections, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found most are resilient enough to survive habitat destruction and the effects of climate change.
Read moreIn the heart of the nation’s largest and most active oilfield, a tiny lizard remains at the center of a debate about balancing environmental safeguards with the economic lifeblood of Texas.
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In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, a coalition of states led by California accused the Trump administration of ditching science to boost corporate profits through its proposed overhaul of the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreAmerica’s oldest zoo-kept elephants can stay right where they are in Massachusetts, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a push to have the prodigious pachyderms moved to a roaming Tennessee sanctuary.
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Climate scientists believe Earth is in the middle of its sixth mass extinction event, and in light of that, House Democrats Tuesday renewed calls for legislation that would reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of key protections for endangered wildlife and plant species.
Read moreOver the last century, Oregon let salmon runs go extinct in some parts of the state and then erased them from people’s knowledge, according to environmental groups behind a new petition to list spring Chinook as endangered.
Read moreDemocrats introduced legislation Tuesday that would repeal rules the Trump administration used to reduce protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreWildEarth Guardians sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court. for failing to protect the Sonoran Desert tortoise under the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreOrdering the EPA to reconsider renewable fuel standards it set for 2018, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that the agency failed to consider how the policy affects endangered species.
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Political appointees in President Donald Trump’s Interior Department have weakened protections for Appalachia’s endangered crayfish to benefit the coal mining industry, environmentalists claim in a federal lawsuit.
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