Endangered Species Act

A federal judge has thrown out a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species. This comes a year after the Biden administration said it was moving to strengthen those species protections. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Northern California eliminated the Trump-era rules Tuesday even as two wildlife agencies under President...

A wildlife agency that lost key court rulings over its denial of petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park bison will undertake a comprehensive study over whether the animals should be covered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday. The decision follows a federal court ruling in January that ordered the U.S. Fish and...

A new push to protect the final remaining wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S. is unlikely to land the fish on a key state endangered list

A San Diego County animal sanctuary is caring for two of about 70 big cats seized by federal authorities this week from animal park owners featured in the Netflix series “Tiger King” amid an ongoing investigation into animal rights violations, a spokesperson for the facility said Monday.

An environmental group filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging the federal government has failed to act on petitions to protect nine different species under the Endangered Species Act and failed to designate critical habitat for 11 others

Wildlife advocates are asking a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation.

The Trump administration has removed gray wolves in most of the U.S. from the endangered species list