Bollywood star Salman Khan was convicted Thursday of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago and sentenced to five years in prison, with the trial judge describing him as a “habitual offender.”
Read moreA federal judge in Arizona ruled wildlife managers have not done enough to protect a subspecies of wolf endemic to the American Southwest.
Read moreThe Native Ecosystem Council claims in a federal complaint that the Bureau of Land Management’s authorization of livestock grazing and sagebrush removal and conifer reduction in the Elkhorns Cooperative Management area will hurt elk, wolves, golden eagles, the Northern leopard frog and westslope cutthroat trout.
Read moreThe federal government intends to restore grizzly bears in the remote North Cascade Mountains of Washington state, a goal that represents “the American conservation ethic come to life,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday.
Read moreEarth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate, according to four new United Nations scientific reports that provide the most comprehensive and localized look at the state of biodiversity.
Read moreA new U.S. advisory board created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family.
Read moreEnvironmental groups are calling out the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for agreeing to fund a state’s carnivore kill experiment.
Read morePacific Gas and Electric has for now dodged a lawsuit claiming its operation of an irrigation and hydropower system in Northern California harms endangered fish.
Read moreA San Diego jury Tuesday heard closing arguments in a wildlife smuggling trial where the accused trafficker claims she didn’t know her boyfriend was doing anything illegal.
Read moreTrustees for Alaska, together with eight national and state conservation organizations, filed a federal suit Wednesday challenging a Jan. 22 land swap agreement between the U.S. Department of the Interior and an Alaska Native corporation.
Read morePublic Employees for Environmental Responsibility settled its case with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday over the National Bison Range with assurances that a solid plan has been established for the management of the nation’s largest bison facility.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CN) – The potential development of a road and the issuing of hunting permits in western Alaskan caribou
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.
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As grizzly bears move from the northern ranges of Montana onto the plains, wildlife agencies are scrambling to remove the population from endangered species protection. But opponents of the delisting have hinted that legal challenges and regulatory hurdles lie ahead.
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A 34-year-old Louisiana man was sentenced to three years probation and a $2,500 fine after pleading guilty Tuesday to illegally trafficking wild box turtles to Texas in violation of federal wildlife laws.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture will stop using aerial gunning, poisons, and other lethal methods to kill wild animals in Northern California as it reviews its culling program under the terms of a new settlement.
Read moreFighting to prevent the extinction of 26 endangered species — from woodpeckers and bumblebees to frogs and dragonflies — conservationists brought a federal complaint Tuesday to vacate the registrations of neonicotinoid pesticides.
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Environmentalists took their fight against the feds’ authorization of more commercial fishing in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands to the Ninth Circuit on Thursday, reiterating their argument that more fishing means less fish for the endangered Stellar sea lion.
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