Red colobus monkeys are back in action. Foreign oil pollution nearly made these primates, indigenous to the marshy Niger Delta region, go extinct. Oil spills were frequent, pushing former fishing ...
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Trump Administration proposes significant change to Endangered Species Act President Donald Trump's administration has proposed a significant change to the Endangered Species Act by redefining the ...
Threats from deforestation, pollution, hunting, and climate change are contributing to the extinction of endangered species. In the US, threatened and endangered species are protected under the ...
While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of North America’s largest bird, Gymnogyps californianus, had dwindled to nearly zero by 1987 ...
New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...
Every five years, a small group of biologists and environmentalists assemble in a large corner office in Springfield with long glass windows. Inside that room, they weigh in on the fate of every ...
On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law. For nearly two years, the legislation’s supporters had fought to keep its language straightforward and its ...