Piping plovers are also probably the best known of the federally endangered or threatened animal and plant species in Connecticut. There are others.

According to the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service, the Endangered Species Act exists to protect threatened or endangered fish, ...

Climate change jeopardizes endangered species’ habitats. Potentially jeopardizing them further is a federal proposal around ...

Missoula federal district judge Dana L. Christensen heard arguments on whether five conservation organizations were likely to ...

This narrower definition effectively rescinds protection of an endangered species’ habitat, limiting harm to actions that “directly” harass, injure or kill organisms.

Center for Biological Diversity Lawsuit Seeks Records on President Trump’s Efforts to Weaken Habitat Protections for ...

More than 50 years after the bipartisan U.S. Endangered Species Act was passed unanimously in the Senate and 355-4 in the House of Representatives, the federal government is proposing to remove the… ...

Ellen Spiegel discusses her story about how federal changes to the endangered species program will affect CT animals.

The federal government wants to rescind the current definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, which could leave ...

A new Louisiana law that rolls back protections from development in isolated wetlands is inspired by a 2023 U.S. Supreme ...