A federal court in Montana ruled against the Center for Biological Diversity on its claims that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not properly address the center’s 2014 petition for an update to a recovery plan for grizzly bears.
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Little Kurt looks like any other baby horse as he frolics playfully in his pen. He isn’t afraid to kick or head-butt an intruder who gets in his way and, when he’s hungry, dashes over to his mother for milk.
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Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested three people suspected of trapping and killing an endangered leopard and trying to sell its meat as a cure for asthma.
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Perched on a branch, the lemur blinks back intently at a group of gawking tourists disrupting a coronavirus-induced spell of tranquility outside Madagascar’s Andasibe national park.
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On a rocky outcrop in an Ecuadoran nature reserve, a pair of prolific Andean condors are giving conservationists a glimmer of hope that the species, under threat from poisoning and hunting, could yet survive and thrive.
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South Africa’s anti-Covid-19 lockdown is credited with helping to achieve a dramatic drop in rhino killings, but as the country opens up experts warn of a possible resurgence of poaching of one of Earth’s most endangered mammals.
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A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats like coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.
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A dispute over protection measures for Australia’s endangered koalas threatened Thursday to topple the government of the country’s biggest state.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Fires raging in the Pantanal, the biggest tropical wetlands on Earth, are threatening a nature
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Almost all species of lemur, the small saucer-eyed primates native to Madagascar, face extinction, an international conservation body warned on Thursday, adding to its growing list of animals and plants under threat.
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Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria’s Mbe mountains, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts.
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NIAMEY, Niger (AFP) — Around 40 dorcas gazelles, an endangered species, have been slaughtered by poachers in one of Africa’s
Read moreWildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court for unreasonably delaying and failing to comply with a 4-year-old court order to correct errors and revise its critical habitat for Canada lynx.
Read moreThe California State Water Resources Control Board’s emergency orders during a drought, which set minimum water flow requirements for three tributaries of the Sacramento River, were not unreasonable or arbitrary, an appeals court in the state ruled. The orders were necessary to protect Chinook salmon and steelhead trout — two threatened fish species.
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Activists in China have released a pangolin into the wild to celebrate new protections for the armadillo-like animal whose numbers in the country have dropped to near extinction levels.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday it would remove the Borax Lake chub, a fish native to Oregon, from the list of endangered wildlife. The agency said the threats to the species have been reduced to a point where it is no longer threatened.
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The Trump administration announced plans to allow oil and gas development on a national monument that is home to endangered species and unspoiled wilderness stashed in between the most populous parts of the state.
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.
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The armed rangers set off at dusk in pursuit of poachers. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a new alertness, and a new fear.
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Stuck at home with no visitors and not much else to do, a pair of pandas in Hong Kong finally decided to give mating a go after a decade of dodging the issue.
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