endangered species act

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service said on Thursday it is initiating a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf to determine if federal protections need to be reinstated. Conservation groups petitioned the service because of aggressive wolf hunting campaigns in Montana and Idaho.

Wyoming is asking the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service to restore state management of grizzly bears.

The lesser prairie chicken could receive federal protections under the Endangered Species Act in parts of the Mountain West. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

Wildlife advocacy groups are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore Endangered Species Act protections for Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves.

Conservation groups are sending letters to Congress as well as several federal agencies, asking for better coordinated federal action for grizzly bear…

Grizzly bears are listed as threatened underneath the Endangered Species Act. This has been under court scrutiny many times.At one point, the U.S. Fish…

In 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed to list the wolverine in the lower 48 states as endangered.In October, the agency announced…

This week, the northern spotted owl and the monarch butterfly were denied protections under the Endangered Species Act, even though both animals…

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed protections Thursday for the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 states.

Environmental groups have issued an intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service if the agency does not put the proposal to put wolverines under…