After weeks of waiting, a group of biologists and conservationists returned about 400 endangered Barrens topminnows to one of their last remaining homes in the world: a small pond in Tennessee.
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A wildlife advocacy organization has settled a dispute with the Trump administration to set aside vast stretches of Arctic sea ice-flecked Alaska coastline for the protection of two imperiled ice seal species.
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The Sumatran rhinoceros has become extinct in Malaysia, after the last of the species in the country succumbed to cancer.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for failing to update the recovery plan for the endangered red wolf, only 14 of which are known to exist in the wild.
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Malawi has received 17 black rhinos from South Africa under a program to replenish the endangered species which temporarily went extinct in the southern African country in the 1980s, a conservation charity said Wednesday.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will not list the California spotted owl as an endangered species.
Read moreIn response to a lawsuit from environmentalists, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife on Wednesday proposed protecting Pacific fishers — vicious wolverine-like animals — under the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreClimate change is threatening to wipe out Australia’s critically endangered mountain pygmy possum, but researchers are hoping to save the hibernating species by relocating the last remaining mammals to cooler lowlands.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for “failing to designate critical habitat for 14 endangered species of plants and animals from the island of Hawaii.”
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Wildlife biologists say a record number of wild California condor chicks have been documented this year in the U.S. Southwest with the discovery earlier this month of No. 5, a nestling found in Grand Canyon National Park.
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After 34 years on the endangered species list, the least tern, a tiny Midwestern bird, is ready to fly free of federal protection.
Read moreDemocrats seeking an end-run around the Trump administration’s efforts to undo endangered-species protections debated two bills Thursday they say could stem hemorrhaging biodiversity loss and empower states to more meaningfully conserve wildlife.
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Between climate change and the Trump administration’s denial of federal protection this year, things look bleak for the iconic Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert. That’s why an environmental advocacy group on Tuesday asked California to step in and shield the species under state law.
Read moreThe Southern Environmental Law Center sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court for information on “the conservation and management of North Carolina’s critically endangered red wolf,” which may have been reduced to only 14 animals.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in federal court for failing to protect the cauliflower coral.
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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 moreWhen 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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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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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 moreThe 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.
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