This article discusses various New York State environmental acts, such as the State Ivory Law and Endangered Species Act.

President Trump has already begun to introduce changes that weaken the Endangered Species Act, a cornerstone of U.S. conservation law.

Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...

Congressmen reintroduce SPEAR Act, a bill intended to keep the lake sturgeon in Wisconsin from protections of the federal ...

A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus ...

MassWildlife officials updated the list “following an extensive review of population data and threats,” officials said.

This idea of ever going back to a period of non-compliance like we had, I don't think would be appropriate or ever acceptable ...

A bill that would lift the protected status of Wyoming otters was expanded and advanced Tuesday by a state Senate committee.

The monarch butterfly’s dramatic population decline prompted a U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s proposal listing the species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. If enacted, the ruling would enhanc ...

Rep. Bob Wharff didn’t hide his anger about federal wildlife managers denying Wyoming authority over its grizzly bear ...

"Most of the species are plants," said Jesse Leddick, assistant director of Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program in ...

Protection under the Endangered Species Act and banning of DDT have contributed to its recovery in North America. Conservation initiatives and anti-poaching measures have led to a gradual increase in ...