NEW ORLEANS— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the dwarf seahorse, a one-inch long seahorse that lives in seagrass beds in the ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that it will put on hold the scientific peer review of its proposal to remove protections for gray wolves across the country while it ...

After 90 Percent Decline, Federal Protection Sought for Monarch Butterfly. Genetically Engineered Crops Are Major Driver in Population Crash. WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Center ...

WASHINGTON— The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and several renowned scientists and herpetologists, including E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy, filed a formal petition today seeking Endangered Species ...

Petition Seeks Emergency Moratorium on Imports of Salamanders for Pet Trade. Exotic Salamanders Could Carry Deadly Disease. WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save the Frogs today ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today, shows a decrease from last year’s count and confirms the iconic orange and black butterfly is still very ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today, shows a decrease of 53% from last year’s count and is well below the threshold at which government ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Trump administration announced today that it will waive dozens of environmental laws to speed construction of 18- to 30-foot-tall border walls across 80 miles of borderlands in ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its creation in 1973, demonstrating the law has ...

New Mexico's Gila River Named America's Most Endangered River of 2019. Climate Change, Proposed Diversion Threaten State's Last Wild River. WASHINGTON― American Rivers today named the Gila River No. 1 ...

SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity has won a victory in the legal battle to force the Trump administration to protect the West Coast habitat of the last remaining Southern Resident killer ...