WASHINGTON— In response to a decade of advocacy by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for denying Endangered Species ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Federal Highway Administration today announced a $25 million grant for North Carolina to build wildlife crossings that will help save critically endangered Red Wolves. Only 16 red ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Endangered Habitats League petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today ...

The rayed bean, sheepnose, snuffbox and spectaclecase mussels, named for the shape of their shells, were protected as ...

Three of the species included in today’s notice are from the territory of Puerto Rico: the Culebra skink (Culebra and the ...

Conservation groups sent a letter Tuesday urging the U.S. Forest Service to amend the Nantahala-Pisgah forest plan because of the tremendous damage from Hurricane Helene to North Carolina’s Nantahala ...

DESCRIPTION: Threespine sticklebacks average about two inches in length, with three spines in front of the dorsal fin and no bony plates on their sides. At spawning time males develop a red throat and ...

WASHINGTON— Federal data show the Biden administration approved 9,779 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first three years, nearly keeping pace with the Trump administration’s ...

Critical habitat is key to the survival of endangered species. In fact, a study by the Center found, plants and animals with federally protected critical habitat are more than twice as likely to be ...

The mountain yellow-legged frog was once the most abundant amphibian in Southern California's Sierra Nevada and Transverse Ranges. Just decades ago, it was hard to walk around many of California's ...

In 2014 the Fisheries Service listed 20 species of corals as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, with 12 of them ...