Center for Biological Diversity: GENEVA— Nations around the world have voted to adopt critical trade protections for three types of sea cucumbers to curb ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect 12 coral species around Florida and islands in the ...

WASHINGTON— In a massive attack on imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration today finalized rollbacks to regulations implementing key provisions of the ...

WASHINGTON— Environmental and animal protection groups today sued the Trump administration over its new regulations that dramatically weaken the ...

Center for Biological Diversity: CITES Measure Throws Lifeline to Imperiled Long Necks.

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety sued the Trump administration today over its July decision to approve use of ...

CHICAGO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today announced it will consider Endangered Species Act protection for lake sturgeon. Today's positive finding ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— President Donald Trump's U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* intends to strip Endangered Species Act protection from Florida Key deer ...

SEWARD, Alaska— A new endangered species mural outside Seward's Temple Studios will be celebrated on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The Center for Biological ...

SEATTLE— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for ignoring a legal petition to protect critically endangered Southern Resident killer ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* to give Endangered Species Act protection to the Las Vegas ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* denied endangered species protection today to six species from around the country, including an imperiled ...

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— The Trump administration has reauthorized use of sodium cyanide in wildlife-killing devices called M-44s.

Center for Biological Diversity: TUCSON, Ariz.— Conservation groups condemned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today for the agency's blanket authorization ...

Center for Biological Diversity: Fate of World's Most Endangered Cetacean to Be Decided in Geneva.

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will end long-running safeguards meant to protect ...

Four public-interest organizations representing farmers and conservationists have made their legal case in a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental ...

Center for Biological Diversity: EUGENE, Ore.— An Oregon judge has issued a decision concluding the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission violated state law ...

Center for Biological Diversity: Bulldozers Aimed at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, San Pedro River.

SACRAMENTO— The federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services has agreed to stop shooting and trapping California beavers on more than ...

RICHMOND, Va.— Conservation groups launched a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service's* approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Center for Biological Diversity: GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— Conservation groups called on Arizona officials today to close a uranium mine near ...

TUCSON — Several conservation groups expressed condemnation toward the U.S. Fish & Wildlife *Service* over claims of a secretive authorization to allow the ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to act on a petition to protect emperor penguins under the Endangered ...

RENO, Nev.— Conservation groups today challenged a recently approved oil well in central Nevada, saying the Trump administration's Bureau of Land ...

Center for Biological Diversity: TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal judge today overturned the U.S. Forest *Service's* approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in ...

The Department of the Interior's changes to the Endangered Species Act — which has successfully protected 99 percent of the animals on the list and saved the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Sea Turtle Oversight Protection and Turtle Island Restoration Network filed a notice today of their ...

DENVER― Conservation groups protested a Trump administration plan today that would expand federal fossil-fuel development in southwestern Colorado, ...

WASHINGTON― Environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge its fourth oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale offers ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Orca Relief Citizens' Alliance sued NMFS this week for "ignoring a legal petition to protect critically endangered Southern ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.— The cruel use of hounds and bait to hunt black bears on Washington timberlands could halt Friday at a hearing on the Center for Biological ...

ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration issued final rules today allowing Hilcorp Alaska to harm beluga whales, sea otters and other marine mammals as the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Several environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over recent changes to the Endangered Species Act that they say ...

MONACA, Pa.― President Donald Trump's visit today to a massive plastics plant being built in Pennsylvania by Royal Dutch Shell ignores the plastic pollution ...

Center for Biological Diversity: Legal Victory Guarantees Analysis of Wildlife Services' Killings in Wyoming.

On July 17, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent with several federal agencies declaring its plans to sue over “widespread and significant ...

August 12, 2019 - POINT REYES, Calif.— The National Park *Service* released a draft plan last week that calls for shooting native elk to allow for expanded cattle ...

Center for Biological Diversity: POINT REYES, Calif.— The National Park *Service* released a draft plan today that calls for shooting native elk to allow for ...

In Brazil, the Amazon rainforest is now burning at a record rate.

Contractors put up the first 30-foot panels of a new border wall on a two-mile stretch of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument this week, the first of three ...

Brushing off overwhelming public opposition, the Trump administration this week re-approved the use of so-called "cyanide bombs" to kill wild animals on public ...

On Monday, the Trump Administration announced sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act, a move that conservation advocates say will greatly ...

Ten environmental groups sued Trump's Environmental Protection Agency today to overturn the administration's Dirty Power Plan and reinstate the Obama-era ...

FILE - In this July 8, 2019 file photo President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt speaks during an event on the environment in ...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) sent a July 25th 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue (“Notice”) to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ...

Bureau of Land Management weighs a plan to extract "frac sand" and millions of gallons of water from the region.

Center for Biological Diversity: ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge a land-swap deal with King ...

Conservation groups announced today they have reached an agreement with Tulare County that will reduce greenhouse gas pollution from industrial dairies.

WASHINGTON— On behalf of Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect ...

Last week we received positive news on the border wall's imminent construction in an Arizona wildlife refuge. The Trump administration delayed construction of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Seven environmental and animal protection groups teamed up to file the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's rollback of the ...

The Florida Key deer is alive today thanks to federal efforts to protect it from extinction. But yesterday, the Trump administration signaled its intent to remove the ...

Tucson's Center for Biological Diversity calls the decision a small, but temporary win.

"This is a species that was incredibly abundant and then were overfished for many years, then impacts of dams and pollution. Now they still persist, but they're.

Conservation groups are criticizing the Trump Administration's new Endangered Species Act rules, saying they weaken the law. T hey're concerned the rules.

by Roland D. Hallee - The report showed a decrease from the count in 2017, and confirms the iconic orange and black butterfly is still very much at risk...

LIHUE — Several organizations are gearing up to try to force the federal government to better protect green sea turtle habitat. The Center for Biological Diversity, ...

New wildlife trade rules being discussed at CITES could affect 550 species, including elephants, rhinos, vaquita porpoises and giraffes.

More beavers may be coming to a river near you. Under the threat of legal action, Wildlife Services, a controversial program administered by the United States ...

Update: Following public outcry, the EPA has announced that it is reversing its decision to reauthorize the use of deadly M-44 “cyanide bombs” to kill wildlife.

Update: Following public outcry, the EPA has announced that it is reversing its decision to reauthorize the use of deadly M-44 “cyanide bombs” to kill wildlife.

Conservationists are accusing the Trump administration of putting the interests of industry — including logging and grazing in the Pacific Northwest — ahead of ...

PRESS RELEASE: SEATTLE— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today Monday, August 19, 2019 for ignoring a legal petition to protect ...

By Anita Desikan. The Trump administration is routinely undermining your ability — and mine, and everyone else's in this country — to exercise our democratic ...

RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Transportation and Sound Rivers, Inc., Center for Biological Diversity, and Clean Air Carolina, represented by the Southern ...

The United States should designate more critical habitat for the endangered green sea turtle, according to three environmental groups that say they will sue the ...

Last week, biologists with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources were on the St. Croix near Somerset Landing, continuing an extensive project to ...

The federal government has decided to not list the Siskyou Mountains Salamander as endangered. That's after dealing with a lawsuit because of a failure to.

The federal government is proposing to strip the tiny Key deer of its endangered species status despite what environmentalists say are continuing threats to the ...

The Trump administration is delaying construction on its long-promised border wall that would cut through protected stretches of the Arizona desert.

The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership fficially adopted in July a new indicator to track progress on the conservation of thousands of economically and culturally ...

Also on Arizona Spotlight: New state law that may provide justice for greater numbers of Indigenous women and girls; A reaction to the Trump administration ...

The Bethany Beach firefly is threatened by development of vacation homes, they say.

UW Associate Professor Diana Baumbach's “Covering: Radial” is part of an art series that draws parallels between manufactured ground coverings, such as ...

MOSCOW — There are 4337 native bee species in North America and Hawaii, and of the roughly 1437 with sufficient data to assess, 749 are declining, ...

Wildlife officials say at least three new wolf pups have joined the only known pack in California.

The fourth annual Iowa City Monarch Festival on Sunday is a celebration with a purpose. The two-hour event at the Iowa City Municipal Airport not only gives ...

Contractors began replacing border fencing along a two-mile stretch of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument this week, the first of three projects that will ...

WASHINGTON — The federal Environmental Protection Agency last week withdrew its support for the continued use of so-called cyanide bombs to protect ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Californians will be pleased to know that Dungeness crab will be caught off the coast with greater care for endangered wildlife under a ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service's* failure to finalize endangered species protection ...

Nevada lawmakers have been meeting with Clark County officials about a controversial proposal to modify protected lands and open more than 56000 acres of .

POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE (CBS SF) — The National Park *Service* is holding two hearings this month on six proposals regarding cattle and dairy ...

In Brazil, the Amazon rainforest is now burning at a record rate. The greedy, short-sighted policies of Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro are jeopardizing ...

Nebraska's highest court has rejected another attempt to derail the Keystone XL pipeline that could have forced the developer to reapply for state approval and ...

The bearpoppy is a lovely if somewhat unassuming little flower and if you don't care about it perhaps you care about bees? “The Las Vegas bearpoppy is an ...

Conservation and animal rights advocates celebrated a rare Trump era victory Thursday after the Environmental Protection Agency reversed its approval of ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Forest *Service* for allowing livestock to trample ...

Center for Biological Diversity: Trump Administration Violated National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act by Approving ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and San Francisco Baykeeper sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect eight highly ...

(CNN) — The US Environmental Protection Agency has begun reauthorizing “cyanide bombs” used as chemical traps to kill predatory animals, despite backlash ...

SANTA TERESA, N.M. — Work crews in Arizona and New Mexico forged ahead Friday with construction of taller border fencing funded through a national ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the Trump administration today over the ...

WASHINGTON— After a prod from a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* announced today that giraffes may qualify for ...

BETHANY BEACH, Del.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation filed an emergency petition today seeking ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration for failing to protect severely imperiled lesser prairie chickens under the ...

Center for Biological Diversity: BAKERSFIELD, Calif.― The California Bureau of Land Management has agreed with conservation groups that plans for a new oil ...

The NC Department of Transportation has agreed to deploy dozens of crucial environmental protections worth millions of dollars as part of a federal court ...

In a letter to the federal government, the California Fish and Game Commission argues that removing wolves from the Endangered Species Act is both prematur.