Endangered California shorebirds who took advantage of pandemic beach closures to expand their nesting area on a Northern California beach won’t be evicted, the California Coastal Commission announced Wednesday after it reached an agreement with State Parks to keep the beach closed through the fall.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Forest Service, Fish & Wildlife Service and Department of the Interior in federal court for failing to protect the critically endangered Mt. Graham red squirrels, which were reduced to a population of only about 80 by wildfires.
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Six little vermilion flycatcher chicks have hatched in the Galapagos Islands, officials said Tuesday, in a boost to the dwindling numbers of the seriously endangered, brilliantly colored songbird.
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Despite claims the federal government is pushing threatened Coho salmon closer to the brink of extinction by cutting off extra water flows to the Klamath River, a federal judge on Friday refused to intervene in the long-running water dispute.
Read moreThe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society sued Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross et al. in the Court of International Trade for failing to ban fish imports whose nets cause the death of Maui dolphins, an endangered species with only 57 in existence.
Read moreFriends of the Clearwater sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming it illegally omitted the effects of a 1,719-acre logging project on grizzly bears in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest.
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After a decades-long legal battle, the federal government on Thursday gave a small group of Pacific fishers endangered species status, but conservationists say the government “ignored key science” in denying protections for most of the animal’s West Coast population.
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To protect the spring migration of threatened California trout species, a federal judge Monday halted the Trump administration’s bid to supply farmers with extra water from the West Coast’s largest estuary.
Read moreA federal judge in Montana revised his April ruling blocking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Nationwide Permit 12, a key permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline that would have allowed construction across hundreds of rivers and streams along its route. The permit still cannot be used to construct new pipelines but can be used to approve utility work, and maintenance and repair work on existing pipelines.
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The judge said the case is too complex to rule on quickly in the middle of a pandemic.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife downgraded the status of the golden conure (Gauruba guarouba), a popular pet bird, from endangered to threatened.
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On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a federal judge signed off on a settlement that bans imports of seafood caught with nets known to kill the vaquita porpoise.
Read moreWildEarth Guardians sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court, claiming he missed the deadline to determine whether five aquatic species warrant protection as endangered species: the Rio Grande chub, Rio Grande sucker, sturgeon chub, sicklefin chub and narrow-foot Hygrotus diving beetle.
Read moreNearly a year after conservation groups petitioned to extend wildlife protections to imperiled California mountain lions, a state wildlife commission voted unanimously Thursday to initiate a study to determine whether lions should be protected under the California Endangered Species Act.
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Conservationists say climate change and urban sprawl could erase the Joshua tree from California’s deserts by the end of the century.
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The federal government unveiled a program Wednesday to plant scores of milkweed plants across the nation to help monarch butterfly populations recover, but conservationists expressed skepticism that the program—while beneficial—could be cover for a refusal to list the iconic species as endangered this winter.
Read moreThe Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming its plan to conduct prescribed burns on 10,000 acres and logging on 2,000 acres in Lewis and Clark National Forest will hurt protected grizzly bears, lynx and wolverines.
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Blonde-mulleted zookeeper Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” filed a $93 million lawsuit claiming authorities selectively prosecuted him while turning a blind eye to other violations of the Endangered Species Act.
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Researchers using artificial intelligence to grade decades of conservation efforts have determined we’re getting better at reintroducing once-endangered species to the wild.
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