Conservationists in New York and nationwide will celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Endangered Species Act on Saturday.

The snail darter is not a thing. It was just a common perch, say scientists. Fraud or bad science? From David Mastio: ...

On December 12, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under ...

Just days after Christmas in 1973 President Richard Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act, establishing one of the strongest conservation laws in history.

The two-inch snail darter became a symbol for regulatory overreach in the 1970s. New research suggests the fish was not an endangered species — or even a species.

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 ...

Bald eagles and ospreys were removed from the state Endangered Species List after years of recovery efforts, the DEP ...

Kirtland's warblers were classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Thanks to intensive, targeted management over several decades, Kirtland's warbler populations have ...

While a slimy species of giant salamander continues disappearing from mountain streams, conservationists hope endangered species protections can help the Eastern hellbender turn the tide toward ...