Sacred to Western Apache and other Indigenous people, the beautiful lands of Oak Flat, Arizona are also home to species like ocelots and endangered Arizona hedgehog cacti. Sadly this place of beauty, ...

DESCRIPTION: The Smith's blue is a small butterfly with a less-than-one-inch wingspan. Adult males are a brilliant blue, while females are brown; both sexes have a red-orange band across the underside ...

WASHINGTON— Ignoring long-established science on the dangers of lead poisoning in the wild, the Environmental Protection Agency today denied a petition to ban toxic lead fishing sinkers that ...

Green sea turtle photo by Jeff Seminoff, NOAA. Photos are available for media use. WASHINGTON— The success of green sea turtles’ recovery on the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts warrants downgrading ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today it is downlisting the Florida manatee from “endangered” to “threatened” — despite hundreds of manatees still dying each year ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— President Trump's border wall threatens 93 endangered and threatened species, including jaguars, ocelots, Mexican gray wolves and cactus ferruginous pygmy owls, according to a new study ...

WASHINGTON— In a massive attack on imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration announced a series of rollbacks today to the regulations implementing key provisions of the Endangered Species Act. The ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Oil-industry pollutants were present in water-supply wells in Kern County, according to a new report released by the State Water Resources Control Board. Chemicals detected at ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration has nominated a former Monsanto employee to run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Aurelia Skipwith has been at the Department of the Interior since April 2017 ...

LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed notices of intent to sue three plastics manufacturers in the Los Angeles region for polluting waterways in violation of the Clean Water Act ...

WASHINGTON— The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Authors of a major new scientific review of the catastrophic decline of insects say a “serious reduction in pesticide usage” is key to preventing the extinction of up to 41 percent of ...