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The Trump administration today waived 31 environmental and public health laws to speed border wall construction through the ...
As a result of a petition filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that nesting habitat ...
From 1996–2021 at least 218 whales were confirmed entangled off Mexico’s Pacific and Baja California coasts. Humpbacks were the most commonly entangled whales, but gray, sperm, Bryde’s and fin whales ...
SAVING THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into ...
The United States is the world’s largest seafood importer, bringing in more than $26.6 billion in seafood products in 2024 from more than 140 nations. An estimated 80% of seafood consumed in the ...
A commission under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement released a report today confirming that Mexico’s unwillingness ...
Newly released records reveal that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...
Click on a point in the map below — then click on 'Show Related Records' — to get information on all the animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered found ...
NATURAL HISTORY ANDEAN FLAMINGO } Phoenicoparrus andinus FAMILY: Phoenicopteridae DESCRIPTION: The Andean flamingo is both the most rare and tallest of all six species of flamingo. It has a ...
The Service also announced today that two foreign species — the painted woolly bat of South and Southeast Asia and a ...
The Trump administration today proposed rescinding the nation’s landmark roadless rule. The move would open nearly 45 million acres of wild, unfragmented national forests to road construction, logging ...