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.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity and eight other environmental groups sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for failing to protect a distinct population segment of the North American wolverine, in Montana federal court.
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The government allowed salmon fishing in Alaska at rates its own reports said will push endangered Southern Resident killer whales closer to extinction, environmental groups claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreWaterwatch of Oregon, et al. sued the Army Corps of Engineers in federal court, claiming its reallocation of 487,400 acre-feet of water stored in the Willamette River Basin Flood Control Project to industry and farming imperils endangered salmon and steelhead.
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A wildlife organization announced an unprecedented move in asking Mexico’s government to enforce an injunction to prevent the widespread killing of three species of hammerhead sharks.
Read moreThe Ecological Rights Foundation sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency in L.A. Federal Court, claiming its implementation of the National Flood Insurance Program in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties harms threatened and endangered species and their habitat there.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for failing to “adequately protect and conserve the critically endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.”
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court, for lollygagging on protecting the threatened or endangered lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes region.
Read moreThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to give Houston-based pipeline giant Kinder Morgan the go-ahead to clear land for a hotly contested natural gas line through the Texas Hill Country within the next two days, attorneys for the company and the federal government said Wednesday.
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A conservation group urged the federal government Thursday to protect an inhabitant of the eighth-largest lake in the United States — a rare colony of about 400 freshwater seals.
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It’s a big day for the little crayfish of Appalachia, as the federal government signaled Monday that it will propose protected habitat space for the endangered species due to coal mining operations and water pollution.
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Fighting for the dwindling lives of a lesser known species, wildlife conservation groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday in hopes of adding pangolins to the list of endangered species.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for missing a deadline to determine whether the Pascagoula map turtle and Pearl River map turtle warrant protection as endangered or threatened species.
Read moreThe Army Corps of Engineers was not authorized to allocate additional water to the needs of two endangered species along the Rio Grande, the Tenth Circuit ruled, tossing an environmental group’s suit seeking protections for the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow.
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The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday found that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied Texas’ petition to remove the golden-cheeked warbler from the Endangered Species list.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court, claiming they illegally issued more than 30 grazing permits in the Apache-Sitgreaves and Gila National Forests that provide habitat for at least eight endangered or threatened species.
Read moreThe Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers in federal court, claiming they plan to expand state roads through endangered Florida panther habitat without proper review.
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Forest conservation efforts, combined with a decline in illegal shootings led the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to remove protections from the Hawaiian hawk, which now boasts a population of over 3,000.
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