How five proposed Trump Administration changes threaten protections for struggling species in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bright-eyed and apparently quite curious, a triplet of critically endangered red ruffed lemurs were born in May at the Lemur Conservation Foundation’s reserve in Myakka City. Six lemur infants, all ...
Each spring on Falkner Island, which sits about three miles off the coast of Guilford, hundreds of roseate terns flock to the uninhabited five-acre island to breed and nest during the warm summer ...
New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...
Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures inhabiting our planet. I spent summers at my grandmother’s West Virginia home ...
Swimming off the coast of Mexico in the Gulf of California live the few remaining vaquitas on earth. This endangered cetacean is not only the smallest porpoise species, but the most rare. Where there ...
Preserving a species is painstaking, time-consuming work. Andres Ortega, aquatic resources supervisor with the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, knows that firsthand. For nearly a decade, ...
Despite its limited applications on paper, the Constitution’s commerce clause has given the federal government carte blanche to regulate whatever it wants. Congress’s power over interstate commerce, ...
Environmentalists are expressing their concerns that the Endangered Species Act could be gutted if proposed revisions are approved. The proposed rollback would eliminate the definition of "harm" that ...
The Fish and Wildlife Service has been chronically slow to protect animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act, ...
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today issued a report identifying 10 endangered animals at risk from the Trump administration’s proposal to strip nearly all habitat protections from ...