Federal judge says Yellowstone-area grizzly bears must stay on threatened list A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The brown pelican, listed as an endangered species even before the 1973 U.S. Endangered Species Act existed, is officially back ...
This undated photo provided by Geo magazine, shows a Panay monitor lizard in the Philippines. The animal is 1.7 meters long, is vegetarian and lives most of its life in trees. Switzerland-based IUCN surveyed a total of 47,677 animals and plants for ...
More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday. The list by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the most respected ...
Clark County, federal authorities quarrel over whose job habitat conservation is A special arrangement between Clark County and federal agencies has made life easier for developers and fueled Southern Nevadas explosive growth since 2001. But to assess that arrangements success in protecting ...
Federal government designates 200,000 sq. miles for polar bear habitat in Alaska The Obama administration said Thursday it is designating more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add ...
The United States on Thursday announced plans to designate more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears, a key step towards increasing protection for the threatened species. "Proposing critical habitat for this iconic species is one step ...
Federal government designates 200,000 sq. miles for polar bear habitat in Alaska The Obama administration said Thursday it is designating more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A vast swath of icy sea, barrier islands and coastal land on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope will be granted special protection because of its importance to the threatened polar bear, under a proposal released Thursday by the U.S. ...
Ranchers, environmentalists at odds over poisoning of prairie dogs on Wyoming grassland Ranchers and environmentalists are at odds over a plan for managing black-tailed prairie dogs on the Thunder Basin National Grassland in northeast Wyoming. Environmentalists don't like how the plan would ...
NOAA Fisheries looking at habitat needs of leatherback sea turtles Federal fisheries managers have agreed to consider designating critical habitat for endangered leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific ocean off Oregon and California. NOAA Fisheries officials said Thursday they will make a ...
Feds designate southwest Alaska shoreline as protected habitat for threatened sea otters Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
