A plan to round up nearly 1,000 wild horses from a national forest in California and sell them for slaughter would betray a decades-old federal policy and violate multiple state and federal laws, animal rights advocates claim in a new federal lawsuit filed Friday.
Read moreAttorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to London on Thursday to announce the United States will invest a minimum of $90 million to counter illegal wildlife poaching and trafficking over the next year.
Read moreNinety-eight mountain goats are starting over in the peaks of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, after the government flew them there from the Olympic Peninsula, in an effort to eradicate the animals from an area where humans introduced them.
Read moreEnvironmentalists asked Los Angeles County officials on Tuesday to stop or modify a proposed housing development that will be located between two national forests, which they said acts as a wildlife corridor for mountain lions.
Read moreHundreds of marchers demanded better protection for British wildlife at the People’s Walk for Wildlife in Hyde Park on Saturday. Many carried pro-nature and pro-animal banners and placards and some wore animal masks.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday granted an 11th hour reprieve to the Yellowstone population of grizzly bears, which were slated to be hunted in Wyoming starting Saturday.
Read moreA monthlong global operation against illegal trade in wildlife and timber has resulted in the seizure of thousands of live animals and tons of meat and ivory, international police agency Interpol announced on Wednesday.
Read moreFour new mountain lion kittens have been found by researchers studying the wild cats living in Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains, wildlife officials announced in video posts Tuesday showing the blue-eyed babies meowing and one feisty one hissing and even taking a swipe at the person filming her.
Read moreFish farms could be the key factor in providing enough protein for a growing global population, according to a study released on Monday.
Read moreBollywood 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.
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