How five proposed Trump Administration changes threaten protections for struggling species in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reconsidering a rule extending endangered species protections to threatened species. FWS has drafted a proposal to rescind the 4(d) blanket rule, which ...

On April 17, 2025, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a proposed rule to rescind the regulatory definition of “harm” under the Endangered ...

Amid ongoing political shifts and court challenges over the last several years, different administrations have promulgated multiple revisions to the Endangered Species Act’s (ESA) core implementing ...

Senate Democrats are raising the alarm over the proposed change to the definition of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). A group, including Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and ...

Climate change is severely threatening Joshua trees, studies show. A federal court in California sided with environmentalists, striking down a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempt to withhold ...

“The agency is starved of the money and staff needed to meet those deadlines,” said a former career Fish and Wildlife Service official. The one-two punch of a shrinking staff and the federal ...

One of Yellowstone National Park’s oldest and most beloved matriarchs — known as “queen of the wolves” — died after a rival pack fight. NPS/Jeremy SunderRaj Yellowstone National Park At Point Defiance ...

Long before COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other “experts” who “represent science,” and their senseless and baseless federal mandates and other authoritarian decrees, there was the Endangered Species ...

The Trump Administration is proposing to narrow the prohibition against "taking" endangered species by removing regulatory language allowing federal wildlife agencies to consider how species are ...

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