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

The Endangered Species Act is 50 years old Thursday. In recent years, the act has become a pawn in partisan battles over federal regulatory powers, with opponents arguing the law infringes upon ...

The condors’ happy ending is thanks in large part to the U.S. Endangered Species Act, or ESA, enacted on December 28, 1973. The act currently protects more than 2,300 species. This includes more ...

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 ...

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 Endangered Species Act is a very important piece of legislation. It was put in place with good intentions, but it's been 50 years since there have been any real changes to it. William Brangham: ...

President Trump plans to overhaul the Endangered Species Act to make it easier to build in the U.S. where endangered species live, a White House official confirmed Wednesday. The president has ...

New rules would void Trump-era changes that made it easier to remove animals and plants from the endangered list. By Lisa Friedman and Catrin Einhorn The Biden administration moved on Wednesday to ...

The extinctions signal a "wake-up call" on the importance of conservation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, the agency ...

The move, which weakens the Endangered Species Act, would remove crucial safeguards against threats such as logging, mining, and development. Critics argue this will accelerate biodiversity loss ...

While giraffes are not native to the U.S., listing them under the act would still provide protections to giraffe populations. The Endangered Species Act, enacted in 1973, establishes protections ...