One of Florida’s rarest and most beloved swamp dwellers, the ghost orchid, could soon see increased protections under the ...

The ghost orchid is a rare, beautiful species. There is only one national park site where it can be found: Big Cypress ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down ...

A proposal to rescind the definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act has people talking — to the tune of more than ...

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it. Fifty years ...

Although the Act works by protecting individual species or subspecies, at its best it provides landscape-level protection for complements of species and their ecosystems. More than 1,600 animals and ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is easy to criticize. This month, it proposed a rule that would limit what constitutes “harm” under the law to only ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service maintains that the new rule will aid in the recovery and eventual delisting of grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act. A 60-day public comment period is ...

For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has provided bedrock legal protection for nature’s most vulnerable, including 1,684 plant and animal species native to the United States and the ...