PESTICIDES REDUCTION The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous chemicals. But pesticide use still poses major threats to ...

Roads and development fragment habitat and constrain wildlife movement. Without incorporating habitat connectivity in our planning by preserving or creating linkages, we endanger the lives of both ...

During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Center for Biological Diversity filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, ...

LeConte’s thrashers rarely drink surface water even when it’s available, instead meeting their water needs via their prey consumption. These wraiths of the arid saltbush flats were long considered ...

For Immediate Release, November 3, 2014 Contact: Amaroq Weiss, (707) 779-9613 New Report IDs 350,000 Square Miles of Additional Habitat for Wolves in Lower 48, Including Grand Canyon Area Where Wolf ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to greatly expand its plans for recovering grizzly bears, including returning ...

For Immediate Release, September 11, 2014 Contact: Patrick Sullivan, (415) 517-9364, [email protected] New Report: Offshore Fracking Threatens California's Ocean, Air, Seismic Safety ...

For Immediate Release, July 25, 2013 Contact: Tierra Curry, (928) 522-3681 West Virginia Fish Protected Under Endangered Species Act Protecting Diamond Darter Will Safeguard Water Quality of Elk River ...

Lawsuit Challenges California Development's Threat to Condors, Tribal Religious Practices LOS ANGELES— Conservation and tribal groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for authorizing a ...

For Immediate Release, April 6, 2016 Contact: Tierra Curry, (928) 522-3681, [email protected] Two Appalachian Crayfishes Protected Under Endangered Species Act in Kentucky, Virginia, West ...

Center for Biological Diversity: A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its creation in 1973, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In response to an emergency request from a coalition of tribal, conservation and fisheries groups, California officials have closed a loophole in the state’s suction dredge mining ...