While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of North America’s largest bird, Gymnogyps californianus, had dwindled to nearly zero by 1987 ...

USFW Biologist Darek Elverud holds a rare Razorback Sucker that his crew momentarily took from the river to gather information during an outing on the Colorado River on Aug. 16, 2016 in Grand Junction ...

Two Grey wolf share a tender moment together in Yellowstone National Park. Contributor Climate change, it turns out, is not the first time humanity has re‑made the Earth. Or resorted to a Hail Mary to ...

New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today issued a report identifying 10 endangered animals at risk from the Trump administration’s proposal to strip nearly all habitat protections from ...

One animal purifies our water. Another provides a vital food source for three other species. This photo essay from Joel Sartore shows how saving one animal saves so many more. The St. Andrew beach ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN for short, is one of the most powerful wildlife organizations. It comprises both civil and government groups, which study and support the ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable species.

A California tiger salamander is photographed in a wetland in 2022 by officials from the Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office. (File photo by Michael van Hattem/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) This ...

Critics of proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act say the move could affect efforts to save species facing extinction Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...