The piping plover is a federally endangered species in Pennsylvania. In 2017, a pair was found nesting on Presque Isle for the first time in 60 years. The federal Endangered Species Act is getting ...
NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for ...
The Trump Administration is proposing to narrow the prohibition against "taking" endangered species by removing regulatory language allowing federal wildlife agencies to consider how species are ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published four proposed rules in the Federal Register on Nov. 21, 2025 – two of which are jointly proposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) – ...
The ESA prohibits the "take" of endangered species without a permit, 2 and the U.S. Congress explicitly defined the term "take" in the statute to mean "to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, ...
Each spring on Falkner Island, which sits about three miles off the coast of Guilford, hundreds of roseate terns flock to the uninhabited five-acre island to breed and nest during the warm summer ...
The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...
They’re gutting the Endangered Species Act, have you heard? A good friend of mine hired a professional photographer, at great expense, to take pictures during a planned event. Afterward, when the ...
One of Yellowstone National Park’s oldest and most beloved matriarchs — known as “queen of the wolves” — died after a rival pack fight. NPS/Jeremy SunderRaj Yellowstone National Park At Point Defiance ...