Coral
The Center for Biological Diversity sued Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in federal court for failing to protect the cauliflower coral.
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Once Nearly Extinct, Songbird Coming Off Endangered List
The federal government said Tuesday it will remove the Kirtland’s warbler from its list of protected species, finding the small, yellow-bellied songbird had recovered more than half a century after being designated as endangered.
Read moreCanada Falling Behind in Protection of Endangered Wildlife
When it comes to protecting wildlife species north of our border, Canada is light years behind the United States, lawyers and biologists said at a conference Friday at the University of Montana.
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Ninth Circuit Orders Feds to Reexamine Army Corps’ Harm to Native Fish
The National Marine Fisheries Service owes an explanation for why it decided that two dams on the Yuba River do not adversely affect threatened Chinook salmon, steelhead and green sturgeon, three Ninth Circuit judges ruled Thursday.
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Northern Fur Seals Multiply on Steaming Alaska Volcano
Alaska’s northern fur seal population for three decades has been classified as depleted, but the marine mammals are showing up in growing numbers at an unlikely location — a tiny island that forms the tip of an active undersea volcano.
Read moreCaribou Protected
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Tuesday protected 30,010 acres of critical habitat for the endangered Southern Mountain caribou, rather than the 300,000 acres the Center for Biological Diversity sought in a lawsuit.
Read moreIrish National Gets 14 Months for Trafficking Rhino Horn
An Irish national who smuggled a cup made of rhinoceros horn out of the United States was sentenced Tuesday to 14 months in prison by a federal judge in Miami.
Read moreEnvironment
The Oregon Natural Desert Association, et al., sued the Bureau of Land Management in federal court, claiming the Trump administration illegally reversed a decision to close 22,000 acres to grazing to study the effects of grazing on the greater sage grouse.
Read moreBill to Blunt Trump Environment Policy Vetoed in California
Engaged in environmental battles with the Trump administration on multiple fronts, California Governor Gavin Newsom angered some allies on Friday by vetoing a bill aimed at blunting federal rollbacks of clean air and endangered species regulations in the state.
Read moreBorneo Pygmy Elephant Found Dead in Malaysia
A pygmy elephant has been found dead in a river on the Malaysian part of Borneo island, an official said Friday, the latest of the endangered creatures to perish.
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Half of Europe’s Endemic Trees at Risk of Extinction
More than half of Europe’s endemic tree species, including the horse chestnut, risk extinction, conservationists warned Friday, blaming invasive species, unsustainable logging and urban development for their decline.
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Definition of ‘Essential’ Probed in Ranchers’ Beef Over Jaguar Habitat
Jaguars once roamed throughout North America. But since only a handful of the large cats have been spotted in the last decade, the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau argued before the 10th Circuit Wednesday that land designated in the state for the predators isn’t essential to their conservation.
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House Dems Push Legislation to Protect Endangered Species
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.
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Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt is illegally refusing to protect the severely imperiled Florida Keys mole skink, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in federal court.
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Endangered Orca May Soon Have More Protected Habitat
Endangered orca living off the coast of Seattle could soon have more protected habitat, thanks to a federal proposal to add a 15,000-square-mile slice of ocean to the area designated for them under the Endangered Species Act.
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Oregon Minnow Swims Its Way Off Endangered List
A tiny fish native to remote waterways in Oregon has been removed from the federal list of endangered species after decades of work to recover and restore the fish’s habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.
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Lab-Created Embryos Could Save Northern White Rhinos From Extinction
Scientists announced Wednesday they have succeeded in creating two embryos of the near-extinct northern white rhino as part of an international effort to save the species, which is down to just two animals worldwide, both of them female.
Read moreBumble Bees
The Almond Alliance of California and other farm groups sued the California Fish and Game Commission in superior court, claiming its recommendation that several bumble bee species be protected as endangered will imperil their livelihoods, due to restrictions on pesticides.
Read moreFeds Decline to Adopt Protections for Yellowstone Bison
The federal government has decided there will be no review of the Yellowstone National Park bison to be considered for federal protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Thursday.
Read moreEnvironmentalists Fight Feds’ Fast OK of Oil Drilling in Alaska
Hasty approvals of offshore oil and gas surveys in southcentral Alaska will harm endangered beluga whales and other marine life, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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