The Center for Biological Diversity brought a federal complaint over the government’s failing to designate critical habitat for five species of Florida and Caribbean coral and seven species of Pacific coral under the Endangered Species Act.
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Wildlife conservationists sued federal ocean management agencies Monday in an effort to spur protections for endangered killer whales whose foraging habits off the Pacific Northwest coast have been disrupted by noise from ships and other vessels.
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For most of his life as a Samburu warrior, Lesaiton Lengoloni thought nothing of hunting giraffes, the graceful giants so common a feature of the Kenyan plains where he roamed. But fewer amble across his path these days: in Kenya, as across Africa, populations of the world’s tallest mammals are quietly, yet sharply, in decline.
Read moreWildEarth Guardians brought a federal complaint to compel action from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on its petition to list the Joshua tree as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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An endangered population of orca whales continued to decline this summer, with three presumed dead while the remaining 73 search the ocean for their main food source: dwindling numbers of Chinook salmon.
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Three environmental groups asked a federal court Tuesday to immediately block Trump administration waivers of environmental and other laws that ease the path for border wall construction on federally protected land in Arizona.
Read moreStriking for their double-green flash, the lightning bugs that call the Delaware Coast home are a little different from those seen in most other parts of the country.
Read moreThe Trump administration formally adopted revisions to land-use plans finalized in 2015 after years of fractious debate between states and the feds, revisions environmentalists say gut protections for the greater sage grouse and other species.
Read moreThe Save Our Springs Alliance claims in a federal complaint that the Texas Department of Transportation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refused to protect the endangered Austin blind salamander from the Oak Hill Parkway development.
Read moreThrowing out a federal permit for the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline for the second time, the Fourth Circuit ruled unanimously Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “lost sight of its mandate” to assess the project’s impact on four endangered species in Appalachia.
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Scientists have found monarch butterflies are equipped with some remarkably sensitive and finely tuned internal temperature gauges that allow them to effectively navigate seasonal shifts – a task made much more complicated by the effects of climate change.
Read moreA federal judge stayed a lawsuit challenging West Coast salmon fishing’s effect on the endangered orca Friday, after the Trump administration said it would update its analysis of the situation with mitigation measures by or before May 2020.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity brought a federal complaint over failure of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Arizona eryngo as a threatened or endangered plant, due to groundwater pumping that has ruined its habitat.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity brought a federal complaint over the government’s failure to timely issue a final rule listing the Southern Mountain caribou as threatened or endangered and designate a habitat for them: There are no such caribou in the Lower 48 states, and Canada has taken the few remaining caribou into captivity to protect them.
Read moreAquinas Kasbar, 19, faces up to a year in federal prison and a $100,000 fine after pleading guilty Monday to breaking into the Santa Ana, Calif. zoo and stealing North America’s oldest-living ring-tailed lemur in captivity to keep the endangered animal as a pet.
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Wildlife organizations asked the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Tuesday to provide new protections for mountain lions in the Golden State.
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Scientists in Europe said Tuesday they’ve successfully transferred a test tube rhino embryo back into a female whose eggs were fertilized in vitro, as part of an effort to save another nearly extinct sub-species of the giant horned mammal.
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Cities will grow exponentially in decades to come, and while wildlife conservation has seldom factored into city planning, a pair of studies found Thursday that urban centers can play a key role in the preservation of the monarch butterfly.
Read moreAn environmental group sued the Trump administration Thursday for failing to designate critical habitat for two species of seals that rely on sea ice off Alaska’s northwest coast.
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