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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Thirteen rhinos have been poached in Botswana in the last two months, the tourism ministry said, as the government tries to crackdown on hunting of the endangered species.
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At least two species of Madagascar lemurs teetering on the brink of extinction because of deforestation could be pushed over the edge by climate change, researchers said Monday.
Read moreThe Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center et al. sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court, claiming it illegally approved the Griffin Half Moon Timber Sale of 9.8 million board feet of timber in the Ashland Resource Area, home to protected Pacific fishers and great gray owls.
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After vanishing from nearly half of their historic habitat, six populations of imperiled yellow-legged frogs will get new protections following a decision by the California Fish and Game Commission.
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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.
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