Endangered species

By rss@youtube.com (IdahoPTV) Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with then-Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne about two blistering Office of Inspector General reports about mismanagement in his agency. The two also discuss several controversial changes to the Endangered Species Act Kempthorne made in t...

By rss@youtube.com (houstonzoo) The Houston toad (Bufo houstonensis) was the first amphibian granted protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Critical habitat was designated in Bastrop and Burleson counties in 1978, in areas supporting the largest populations known at that time. Primary threats to this speci...

By Jeremy Hance In George W. Bush's eight years as president, he placed 62 species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), an average of eight species per year. While, Bush's slow pace in protecting endangered species frustrated environmentalists in light of continued decline among m...

If the federal government implements a 2007 legal interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, the likely result will be a reduction in the number of species listed for protection, scientists say. Researchers analyzed potential effects of a legal memorandum issued in March 2007 by th...

Correction to the Endangered Species Act is badly needed. In order to protect endangered species and to prevent other species from becoming endangered corrections must be made. Without the needed corrections the efforts to protect endangered species will fail.

The beetle's restricted habitat makes it a legitimate endangered species though whether it gains federal protection under the Endangered Species Act is ... and more »

LOS ANGELES— Monday a federal judge ruled that the US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act in preparing the biological opinions for the four Southern California forest plans. ...

The groups also sent the Bureau a 60-day notice of their intent to sue for violations of the Endangered Species Act regarding the impacts to endangered and threatened species in the region from continued oil and gas leasing in their habitat. ...

 NC There were as few as 417 nesting pairs of American bald eagles in the United States in 1967, when the birds were on the US Department of the Interior's Endangered Species Preservation Act list before the Endangered Species Act of 1973. ...

 CA He continued to say, “The Green and Colorado Rivers are critical for the survival of the Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, bonytail and razorback sucker, all listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act – the highest level of imperilment. ...

The bald eagle is a national bird once protected by the Endangered Species Act. It was taken off the endangered species list in 2007. However, the bird is still protected by the Bald Eagle Protection Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Under a ...

Media Newswire (press release), NY Sperm whales are classified as "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act ( ESA ), and are listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ). It is illegal to import parts of sperm ...

Today the Center for Biological Diversity filed a scientific petition with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the western gull-billed tern as an endangered species under the federal Endangered Species Act. The western gull-billed tern has only ...

Conservation groups today filed suit to challenge the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Idaho and Montana. On April 2, 2009, the US Fish and Wildlife Service dropped the wolves from the Endangered Species list, ...

 UK The new rebuttal reinforces the reports written by the scientists and accepted by the Department of Interior in its May 2008 decision to list polar bears as a threatened species on the US Endangered Species Act. "The decision to list the polar bear as ...

No protected habitat exists for the Florida panther, the only big cat east of the Mississippi. And fewer than 100 individual panthers remain, making the Florida Panther one of America's most endangered species. The Interior Department has the ability under the Endangered Species Act to...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animal Welfare, Animals, Conservation, Development, Environment, Environmentalism, Fisheries, Government, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Law, Legislation, Nature, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Science Tagged: Bush, Bush Administration, Bush Endangered Speci...

By Buck Denton Posted in Animal Welfare, Animals, Biology, Environment, Extinction, Fisheries, Government, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Law, Legislation, Nature, News, News Picks, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Science Tagged: Bush Endangered Species Regulations, Critically Endangered Spe...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Brown said the president is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act before he leaves office next month. California is home to 310 plant and animal species listed as endangered or threatened by the federal government, more than any state except Hawaii, according to the complaint.

By The Huffington Post News Editors Devaney said "MacDonald's zeal to advance her agenda has caused considerable harm to the integrity of the ESA program and to the morale and reputation" of the Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as potential harm to animals under the Endangered Species Act.

This week's decision not to protect the Mexican garter snake under the Endangered Species Act underscores just how much time, money and effort is required to declare a species officially "endangered" -- and also how little priority the current administration has placed on species pro...

WASHINGTON ? The Bush administration is finalizing changes to the Endangered Species Act that would ensure that federal agencies will not have to take global warming into account when assessing risks to imperiled plants and animals.The proposed rule changes, which were obtained by Th...

By Ryan Powers The Associated Press reports today that, as part of its long-fought campaign to gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Bush administration is pushing a last-minute regulatory change that would significantly weaken the ESA:

By Nico In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that the federal government can avoid its responsibility to protect species under the Endangered Species Act by handing off authority to the states. The EPA routinely delegates administration of the Clean Water Act to states. The Court’s decision means...

The The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced plans to reclassify the American crocodile from endangered to threatened in Florida. The Service's final reclassification decision comes after a five-year review of the species, required under the Endangered Species Act. The act de...