A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction ...

Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...

Environmentalists objected to the plan to set up “heavy-duty” tents to house undocumented immigrants in one of the country’s ...

In the 2010s, this teeny bird species teetered towards the brink of extinction due to habitat loss and degradation. In 2019, it was estimated that as few as 100 birds were left in the wild.

The Endangered Species Act worked. Thanks to the legislation and the way it has been enforced, today we have the opportunity to watch soaring bald eagles in the lower 48, see gray whales migrate ...

Passed in 1973, the Endangered Species Act offers a wide umbrella of protections, prohibiting people from actions that “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect ...

The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America and one of the heaviest snakes on the ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy Everglades for the better part of winter. The alligators swarming the ...

Habitat loss is the biggest threat to endangered species in Massachusetts, according to wildlife experts. A new interactive map allows residents to see which threatened or endangered species might ...

May 16 is Endangered Species Day, and Mass. officials are asking people to help raise awareness about endangered animals. See the list.

The Brief. The Sihek is among the most endangered bird species in the world. For the first time in almost 40 years, recently released Siheks have laid eggs in the wild.

Both birds were moved from the endangered species list to the state’s more generalized nongame species ... The federal government removed the bald eagle from its endangered species list in 2007.