For more than six decades, the International Primatological Society (IPS) has brought scientists, conservationists and ...

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

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

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

The estimated population of the black-tailed godwit has declined as much as 77.5 per cent in 23 years, with fears for its ...

A U.S. House committee narrowly approved Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman’s push to remove grizzly bears from the endangered ...

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.

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 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.

Polymita snails are increasingly under threat as poachers sell their colourful shells to collectors. | ITV National News ...

The two species being listed by the state are similar. Both have blue-green heads and pincers, and reddish-brown bodies and don’t grow beyond about 2.8 inches in length.

The Endangered Species Act is a “very well-meaning bill that had great objectives,” said Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Arkansas), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee.