Tag: threatened and endangered species

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final rule updating its process of excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species under Endangered Species Act....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that higher priority listing actions under the Endangered Species Act will prevent it from listing the monarch butterfly or uplisting the northern...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service have released the final definition of the term “habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. Until now, neither the ESA nor...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declined to list both the tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) and the southern white-tailed ptarmigan (Lagopus leucura altipetens) under the Endangered Species Act. The...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project have filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as other Department of...

Under an agreement finalized last week, Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) populations in the Southwest will receive additional monitoring and conservation measures by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the contiguous United States from the Endangered Species Act. First listed under the ESA in the 1970’s,...

A U.S. federal district court judge dismissed a 2018 lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2016 designation of critical habitat for the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse (Zapus...

The Wildlife Society expressed concerns that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent proposal to update its process for excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species under...

Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in late September challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision not to list the bi-state population of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) under the Endangered Species Act....