Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet ...

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 ...

IDAHO, USA — This story originally appeared in The Idaho Press. Snakes. Bears. Fish. Wolves. Whatever they may be, almost every state’s endangered species work is done by an independent state ...

RIP honeycreeper birds, Mariana fruit bat of Guam, Bachman’s warbler and the rest of the 21 species lost to extinction in the US alone in 2023. They join a growing list of animals in the process of ...

The Endangered Species Act is 50 years old Thursday. In recent years, the act has become a pawn in partisan battles over federal regulatory powers, with opponents arguing the law infringes upon ...

Fifty years ago last week, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973, a conservation law that quickly became one of the most politically attacked of all time. A few months ...

With the major die-off in the Florida Keys in 2024 and 2025 resulting in the mortalities of at least 65 large sawfish (and ...

The rarer an animal, the higher its price tag climbs—turning survival into a deadly commodity. Our world is a tapestry woven with incredible biodiversity, a collection of creatures great and small ...

The Department of the Interior announced the new proposal in November, stating the rules support the administration’s focus ...

Experimental Essential — An experimental population whose loss would appreciably reduce the species’ chances for survival in the wild. Species are released back into their home range and given the ...

The 2024 calendar is not even at its halfway point but more endangered Florida panthers have died this year than in all of 2023, according to state statistics. Of the 14 deaths in 2024, 11 involved ...