The Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to define “habitat” in the Endangered Species Act for the first time, in response to a 2018 Supreme Court decision. As ...

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...

Prompted in part by the travails of the dusky gopher frog, the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today finalized a formal definition of “habitat” for use under the Endangered Species Act.

What constitutes “critical habitat” for a species federally listed as threatened or endangered? And what exactly does “healthy” mean when it’s used on food packaging? Those are two of the more ...

Improving incentives for landowners is a more effective way to conserve habitat than imposing burdensome regulatory mandates on them. Words have meaning — or at least they should. And a high-profile ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals — potentially excluding areas that species ...

The Trump administration’s definition was at odds with the conservation purposes of the Endangered Species Act, wildlife officials said. By Catrin Einhorn The Biden administration is throwing out the ...