The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

Listing the subspecies as “endangered” indicates the giraffes are threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act, allowing the U.S. to restrict the import of giraffe parts into ...

Giraffes are about to join the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that three populations of the world’s tallest land animal be classified as endangered.

An endangered species listing imposes civil and criminal penalties under federal law for anyone who removes the flower from federal or state public lands, according to Lopez.

Thirty-one of the 42 remaining endemic birds are listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the department said and ten of these haven’t been seen in decades. More about ...

Which is why Fish & Wildlife has proposed listing the iconic insects as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. (Endangered species are considered close to extinction and get significant ...

A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act has local environmental groups worried. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are looking to repeal ...

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, there are over 1,300 species listed as endangered or threatened to become extinct in the U.S. under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Environmentalists worry that conservatives in Congress who want to weaken the Endangered Species Act will use that argument to try and strip down the law. Some of the groundwork has already been laid.

Sea turtles were protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973, and Mexico banned all captures of sea turtles in 1990. But it took a few decades for the results of these actions ...

Delisting endangered species is supposed to be done when federal scientists think it is no longer necessary, but it’s not unheard of to become political as well. Grizzly bears are a perfect example.

New monkey species found hiding in plain sight. Three Southeast Asian leaf monkeys are distinct species, new research shows, which makes two of them some of the rarest, most endangered primates.