This proposal has drawn criticism from legal scholars and conservationists, who argue that habitat modification poses a major ...

Green sea turtles, like this hatchling in Florida, are endangered due in part to habitat destruction and fishing nets. Keenan Adams/USFWS It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or degradation, climate change, forest fires, deforestation, and slash-and-burn and ...

The Trump administration proposed changing the interpretation of the Endangered Species Act to allow developers to alter the habitats of endangered species like panthers, sea turtles and owls ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (AP) — The Trump administration plans to ...

HONOLULU— In response to litigation from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a ...

Christmas came early at the Memphis Zoo with the much-anticipated arrival of an orangutan baby, a girl named Ruhana ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated nearly 120,000 acres of land on Hawaii island as protected critical habitat for 12 endangered species. These 12 species — including 11 plants and the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hundreds of endangered fish that were ...

The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the habitats of species... Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't ...