One of Florida’s rarest and most beloved swamp dwellers, the ghost orchid, could soon see increased protections under the ...

Nutria are recognized as an invasive species capable of destroying native vegetation and agricultural crops. Over the years, ...

Green sea turtles, like this hatchling in Florida, are endangered due in part to habitat destruction and fishing nets. Keenan Adams/USFWS ...

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada says the snowy owl population has gone down by more than 40 per ...

More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority.

The mammals' return to the region represented a conservation success story, but their appetite for endangered fish is ...

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it. Fifty years ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out ...

The flaw in Colossal's plan is that the animals ... His operation not only exploited endangered species for profit, but also triggered outbreaks of infectious disease, demonstrating the risks ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is ... U.S. highways should understand the flaw in this logic: Species can thrive only when they have space to live ...

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. Conservationists ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable ...