Pacific sardines, the small, oily fish favored by salmon, baleen whales and toothed whales, have had their population collapsed by 98 percent since 2006, according to the Pacific Fisheries Management Council, which on Friday formerly declared the West Coast population overfished.
Read moreThe European law enforcement agency says Spanish police have shut down what they believe to be Europe’s biggest illegal turtle farm, selling endangered species worth 10,000 euros ($11,500) each.
Read moreThe number of critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins along a stretch of the Mekong River has increased for the first time in 20 years but the animals still face serious threats, Cambodia’s government and a major conservation group said Monday.
Read moreSpain’s Civil Guard says it has brought down a criminal network making lucrative profits by smuggling glass eels to Asia, a burgeoning illicit traffic that is worrying both law enforcement agencies and scientists.
Read moreAn international advocacy group claimed in federal court Tuesday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could place wild mustangs at risk of extinction by refusing to issue a 90-day finding on the group’s petition to list the wild mustang population as endangered.
Read moreA nonprofit whose south Texas butterfly preserve stands in the way of a planned border wall called for a federal judge Monday to hinge construction on the results of an environmental assessment.
Read moreA court ruling against Fish and Wildlife’s Western Great Lakes wolf delisting decision causes reconsideration of the Yellowstone grizzly delisting.
Read moreFederal listing agencies announced new “not warranted” findings for four land-based species and a possible downlisting finding for a sea turtle.
Read moreNOAA has proposed to federally protect the chambered nautilus due to threats from the international shell trade and fishing practices.
Read moreAs the threat of trophy hunting looms, conservation and tribal groups challenged the administration’s removal of Yellowstone grizzlies from the Endangered Species List.
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Federal researchers studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales sometimes go years without finding their subjects. Over the weekend they got lucky.
Read moreInaction and indecision by the agency charged with protecting them may spell disaster for critically endangered red wolves, advocates claim.
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Endangered Species Act protection has been finalized for six foreign shark-family species in South American waters, due to overfishing.
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A blind orange spider found only in central Texas caves has won another round in a decades-long fight with developers.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Florida black bear and a desert tortoise do not need more protection.
Read moreTropical Cyclone Debbie made landfall in Queensland, Australia, late last month as the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane, packing sustained winds of 120 mph and gusts clocked at 163 mph.
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