WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that it will put on hold the scientific peer review of its proposal to remove protections for gray wolves across the country while it ...

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Tiago J. G. Fernandes. Photos are available for media use. “Monarchs are in a deadly free fall and the threats they face are now so large in scale that Endangered ...

NEW ORLEANS— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the dwarf seahorse, a one-inch long seahorse that lives in seagrass beds in the ...

WASHINGTON— The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by ...

Petition Seeks Emergency Moratorium on Imports of Salamanders for Pet Trade. Exotic Salamanders Could Carry Deadly Disease. WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save the Frogs today ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today, shows a decrease from last year’s count and confirms the iconic orange and black butterfly is still very ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today, shows a decrease of 53% from last year’s count and is well below the threshold at which government ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Trump administration announced today that it will waive dozens of environmental laws to speed construction of 18- to 30-foot-tall border walls across 80 miles of borderlands in ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its creation in 1973, demonstrating the law has ...

WASHINGTON― American Rivers today named the Gila River No. 1 on the list of “America’s most endangered rivers” of 2019, citing the grave threat that climate change and a proposed diversion project ...

More Than 160 Groups Urge Senate to Reject Bernhardt for Top Interior Post. WASHINGTON— More than 160 conservation groups sent a letter to U.S. senators today urging them to oppose the nomination of ...

For Immediate Release, March 26, 2019 Contact: Lori Ann Burd, (971) 717-6405, laburd@biologicaldiversity.org Document Shows Trump Administration Has Known Since 2017 That Chlorpyrifos Jeopardizes ...