House subcommittee examines the state of wildlife
The Water, Oceans and Wildlife subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the State of Wildlife last week. The hearing was the third ...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces gray wolf recovery
Last week, during the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
USFWS to list scarlet macaw subspecies as endangered
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced its decisions to list the northern subspecies of scarlet macaw (Ara macao cyanoptera) as endangered under the ...
Recovery plans updated for 42 species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has updated recovery plans developed under the Endangered Species Act to ensure that the recovery criteria are measurable and ...
More legal challenges over gray wolves, grizzly bears
Over the past several years, gray wolves (Canis lupus) have been the subject of several efforts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the species under ...
House passes legislation to delist gray wolves
The House of Representatives narrowly passed the Manage our Wolves Act, H.R. 6784, which would remove the gray wolf (Canis lupus) in the contiguous 48 states ...
Judge orders USFWS to strengthen protections for threatened lynx
A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not doing enough to protect Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) from trapping. In his Oct. 26 ...
USFWS proposes listing for marten, black rail, petrel
Citing habitat loss, wildfires and loss from predation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list the distinct coastal population of Pacific marten ...
House committee advances ESA amendments
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee met Sept. 26 to discuss nine bills aimed at amending the Endangered Species Act. Each of the bills ...
TWS submits comments on proposed ESA changes
In July, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service announced several proposed changes to regulations enforcing the Endangered ...