After a long stint in court, FWS agreed last year to make a decision on the plant, which is largely located in places like ...

The Colorado hookless cactus has been removed from the endangered species list, thanks to conservation efforts now at risk of federal funding cuts.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora treaty covers all orchid species, ...

In August 1992, state biologist Charlie Todd ascended Borestone Mountain to tend to five captive peregrine falcon chicks. He ...

While a slimy species of giant salamander continues disappearing from mountain streams, conservationists hope endangered species protections can help the Eastern hellbender turn the tide toward ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down ...

They’re big, like an overweight Peruvian dog,” is how photographer Santiago Romaní describes giant otters (Pteronura ...

The U.S. Interior Department announced Wednesday it has removed the Apache trout — Arizona’s official state fish — from the list of endangered and threatened species. The delisting shows the ...

Discovering something rare is exciting but it becomes truly memorable when it happens unexpectedly. That was exactly the case ...

Global warming is heating the environments of amphibians, leading to hot temperatures that the animals can't tolerate.

Habitat loss, climate change and human actions have led to a steep decline in the population of the grey crowned crane. Now ...