The bear was added to the endangered species list in 1975 and it's been a tortuous political battle ever since ...

Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says efforts to save the fish in Virginia and North Carolina have been successful.

A global study finds over 3,500 animal species already threatened by climate change, with invertebrates and marine life most ...

"The arrival of a critically endangered species is rare and meaningful," Louisville Zoo Director Dan Maloney said. "It's a ...

The Louisville Zoo welcomed two Baer’s pochard ducklings on May 29. The Baer's pochard duck is an endangered species and has ...

And so in 1975, the US Fish and Wildlife Service placed grizzly bears on the endangered species list, the country’s most powerful legal mechanism to stave off extinction. The grizzly’s place ...

The Amur leopard is already a rare species found in Russia, so it’s not great that it’s found on the endangered species list, with fewer than 100 in existence.

On Sept. 29, the FWS proposed to remove 23 animals species and one plant species from the ESA's list of protected species due to extinction. About 650 species in the U.S. have likely been lost to ...

The federal Endangered Species Act is getting attention in Congress. In early March, the ESA Amendments Act of 2025 was introduced in the House by Bruce Westerman, the Republican House Committee ...

Several species added by the DEC are already on the federal endangered species list, including the three found on Long Island: the northern long-eared bat, the Atlantic sturgeon and the rufa red knot.