Bhopal: In a major boost to India's wildlife conservation efforts, a caracal— one of the country's most elusive and ...

America's national bird is doing great. The government's proposed cuts to nature protections could put that at risk.

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act.The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

More than 50 years after the bipartisan U.S. Endangered Species Act was passed unanimously in the Senate and 355-4 in the House of Representatives, the federal government is proposing to remove ...

Since it was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon near the end of 1973 the Endangered Species Act served as the most powerful defense against natural resource exploitation that harmed ...

Habitat loss remains the No. 1 cause of wildlife decline, and without the protections of the Endangered Species Act, chances are we would have already lost the California condor, humpback whale ...

To get endangered species off the list, that is, they must no longer be endangered. And achieving that difficult task will become immeasurably more difficult if the proposed changes to the act happen.

For 50 years, the U.S. government has interpreted the Endangered Species Act as protecting threatened and endangered species from actions that either directly kill them or eliminate their habitat.

The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is easy to criticize. This month, it proposed a rule that would limit what constitutes “harm” under the law to only ...

The roseate tern, one of a handful of federally endangered and protected bird species in Connecticut, has about 95% of its population in the state on the island each summer.

The Ontario government is repealing the Endangered Species Act, making it easier to build mines and infrastructure projects like Highway 413. On April 17, the eve of the Easter long weekend, the Doug ...

Congress passes many laws that are based on good intentions but in practice they get so twisted and misinterpreted by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and unelected bureaucrats that the ...