Sierra Nevada red fox population proposed as endangered
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing a population of the Sierra Nevada red fox as endangered. A subspecies of the red fox, the Sierra Nevada red ...
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Hawaiian hawk to be removed from endangered list
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is removing the ’io, or Hawaiian hawk (Buteo solitarius), from the endangered species list. Biologists have found the hawk’s ...
Watch: Biologists work to sustain disappearing Texas bird
About 1 million Attwater’s prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) once occupied the coastal prairies of Texas and Lousiana. Now, less than 1 percent ...
Endangered butterfly finds home on bombing range
Amid the installations at the Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina, a delicate butterfly has found a home. The St. Francis’ satyr (Neonympha mitchellii ...
Management actions help woodpecker recover
At Fort Stewart, Georgia, and across much of the Southeast, the red-cockaded woodpecker is on the rebound. Listed as endangered since the Endangered Species Act was ...
Rare bird seen nesting for first time in more than 40 years
Biologists have caught the first video footage ever of a rare shorebird nest in Russia’s remote far east. Scientists had not seen Nordmann’s greenshanks (Tringa ...
Condor recovery reaches hatchling milestone
A California condor chick that hatched in a nest on a cliff in Zion National Park became a milestone for the efforts to recover the endangered species. It received ...
A whooping crane win in Wisconsin
Balancing human health and safety with recovery of threatened and endangered species is a rewarding aspect of Wildlife Services operations across the country. In ...
House committee considers grizzly take legislation
The House Natural Resources committee is considering an act that would prohibit grizzly bear hunting or other take of grizzlies in the contiguous United States ...
Is time running out for the ocelot?
In his 35 years studying ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), 42-year TWS member Michael Tewes has seen plenty of efforts to conserve them in his home state of Texas, but ...