It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. The Trump administration is proposing to change the definition of “harm” under the regulation of the Endangered Species Act. For decades ...

WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2012 (ENS) – A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to define a five-word phrase in the Endangered Species Act has conservation groups and scientists up in arms. Under the ...

Well-meaning residents of New Zealand’s capital may be killing the city's endangered birds with kindness. It turns out that the chicks of the kākā birds that live in Wellington are failing to survive ...

A rare desert flower that once lived in southern New Mexico was granted protections as an endangered species this week, following multiple petitions and a lawsuit from conservationists against the ...

Improving incentives for landowners is a more effective way to conserve habitat than imposing burdensome regulatory mandates on them. Words have meaning — or at least they should. And a high-profile ...

These bog turtles, whose "shells are roughly the size of a quarter," according to the zoo, are native to the Peach State. Unfortunately, the zoo adds these types of turtles are critically endangered, ...

The Trump administration’s definition was at odds with the conservation purposes of the Endangered Species Act, wildlife officials said. By Catrin Einhorn The Biden administration is throwing out the ...

<p><strong>Indiana bat:</strong> Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston and Washtenaw counties. <br/><strong>Northern Long-Eared bat: </strong>Wayne, Oakland, Macomb ...