The Endangered Species Act, first enacted by Congress in 1973, has since become a poster child for bureaucratic ineptitude. By 2021 it had fully redeemed from the impending extinction only 3% of

Historian Douglas Brinkley celebrates the success of the 1973 law that finally gave legal protection to America's iconic flora and fauna facing extinction. In the half-century since the law's introduction, an astonishing 99% of the threatened species originally listed have survived.

Years of drought, fires and habitat loss have drastically reduced the population of the iconic marsupial.

New rules would void Trump-era changes that made it easier to remove animals and plants from the endangered list.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has added the migratory monarch butterfly to the IUCN Red List as an endangered species. The IUCN Red List is classified into the following…

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Decision follows years of lobbying by conservation groups amid catastrophic declines in iconic species' population.

Sweden to allow 30 of its 375 wolves to be killed as EU considers relaxing current rules

The Australian government on Saturday revealed that it had placed koalas on the list for endangered species, upgrading their level of threat from "vulnerable."

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the penguins native to Antarctica as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

The Endangered Species Act is a case of too little, too late. Only a tiny fraction of listed flora and fauna have recovered. Read more. The post Why the Endangered Species Act keeps failing first appeared on EarthSky.

The law gives activists enormous power if they can find — or invent — an endangered species.

Bethany Beach firefly could be first firefly to receive federal protections

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to fight biodiversity loss by analysing vast amounts of data, monitoring ecosystems and spotting trends over time

A federal court ruling Thursday redesignates gray wolves as a threatened species across much of the United States.

It's been an icon of "caring" government for half a century, but how did the law really do?

U.S. Fish and Wildlife says current preservation practices are enough to maintain the species for the foreseeable future.

The Endangered Species Act, which was implemented in 1973, has saved many whale species. Survival of the right whale is a testament to the act's importance.

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced that emperor penguins have been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) based on evidence that the animal's sea ice habitat is shrinking and is likely to continue to do so over the next several decades. This listing comes more than one year after a USFWS proposal to list the species, and confirms that the animal is at risk of…

Australia listed a small wallaby and the grey snake among 15 new threatened species on Tuesday as it launched a zero-extinction plan for its unique wildlife.