endangered species

The Endangered Species Act of 1973, our most cherished conservation law, passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support (92-0 in the Senate, and 394-4 in the House). This law saved our national symbol, the bald eagle, from extinction. To date, more than 1,300 imperiled species of plants, fish ...

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1990s, Combs championed legislation prohibits state wildlife officials from gathering endangered species data from private lands without permission, according to the Austin Chronicle. It also sought to restrict the state from sharing endangered ...

The Rare and Endangered Species Preservation Program continues to benefit California's native at-risk fish, wildlife and plants, thanks to the generosity of California taxpayers. Donations to this fund have enabled CDFW to obtain matching funds from the federal government and collaborate with numerous ...

Dear EarthTalk: Now Trump is going to allow the importing of elephant 'trophies' after all! Where do things stand overall now in the fight to protect endangered species, especially as wildlife now also face threats from climate change?-Mark Harrison, Sumter, SC ...

In 2016, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shifted the conservation status of giraffes from species of “least concern” to “vulnerable”. It seems that in all of six years, the gentle giants had gone from a state of low or no concern to being just four steps away from a complete wipeout.

These land-loving leeches could help us save endangered species! You see, every time a leech siphons off a bellyful of blood from, say, a dwarf mongoose, what it's really doing is taking a DNA sample from a wild animal. And scientists can make use of these samples to determine what species inhabit a ...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The USFWS said Thursday, March 22, 2018 that it no longer considers the fish on the brink of extinction and will consider reclassifying the ...

The Environment Agency and Police are working together to investigate those fishing illegally. The Agency told us: "Regular auditing of these fisheries is essential to ensure protection of these iconic and in the case of eel - a critically endangered species; but also to ensure that the activity is regulated and ...

President Donald Trump is under fire over a board created to advise him on how to protect certain African animals that are in decline, in part because of hunting. Critics say too many of the panel's members are trophy hunters. At issue are rules for importing the heads and hides of African lions, elephants ...

"We are encouraged that the Trump administration has agreed to revisit these rules, which threaten property owners' rights to use any land that the federal government could dream that an endangered species might ever inhabit," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in his news release. "These ...

Led by Alabama, the states filed the lawsuit in 2016, alleging that the changes allowed the federal government to designate "entire states" as habitat for species under the Endangered Species Act. The states yesterday notified the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama that they had ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The Trump administration will rewrite rules governing how to choose areas considered critical to endangered species to settle a lawsuit brought by 20 states and four trade groups, according to state attorneys general. The endangered species director for an environmental nonprofit says ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - States that challenged endangered species regulations say the Trump administration has agreed to rewrite rules about how to designate ... Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity says the administration has "shown nothing but hostility toward endangered species."

(CNN) Lacoste temporarily replaced its polo shirts' crocodile logo with the images of 10 endangered species to help counter the threat of extinction. The shirts, which are part of a limited run supporting the "Save Our Species" campaign that launched during Paris Fashion Week on March 1, have sold out.

'Fantasy documents': recovery plans failing Australia's endangered species. Expired, unfinished or undeveloped: conservationists call for more transparency and accountability in species management systems. Lisa Cox. Mon 19 Feb 2018 12.00 EST Last modified on Tue 13 Mar 2018 11.49 EDT. Share on ...

One of the most influential and controversial laws affecting the management of fish and wildlife in the United States has been the Endangered Species Act. Although this is the way it feels now, it wasn't that way when the law passed in 1973. The Senate passed the bill unanimously while the House voted for ...

Under the rules of the Endangered Species Act, once a species is discovered to be at risk of extinction, government agencies are required by law to take steps to save it. For years, critics have challenged that mandate, arguing that it undercuts the ability to weigh a species' value or to consider the economic ...

The congressional attempt to remove federal protections for gray wolves in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan is aimed at nullifying a 2014 ruling by a federal judge that placed the wolf back on the endangered species list after the U.S. Department of the Interior removed it three years before. A federal ...