Endangered Species

Can Clusters of Human-Constructed Ponds in the Arizona Desert Save a Threatened Frog?

Drought, wildfires, invasive species and a deadly fungal disease isolated the once-abundant Chiricahua leopard frog to fewer than 80 Southwestern sites. The state, a nonprofit and volunteers are collaborating to build them new homes.

By Wyatt Myskow

Tribe and Environmentalists to Sue Feds Over Arizona Mine’s Impacts to Threatened Owls

By Wyatt Myskow

A Bill to Gut Endangered Species Protections Faced a Major Setback This Week

By Kiley Price

Environmental Groups Take Trump Administration’s ‘God Squad’ to Court

By Wyatt Myskow

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection

By Teresa Tomassoni

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

By Kiley Price

Trump Administration to Finalize Protections for 11 South Florida Plants and Animals

By Amy Green

In Ecuador’s Battle of Toad vs. Road, Toad Wins

By Katie Surma

To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life

By Anika Jane Beamer

Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?

By Jake Bolster

How Proposed Changes to the Endangered Species Act Could Further Threaten the Country’s Imperiled Species

By Kiley Price

Sumatra’s Deadly Floods May Have Pushed a Rare Ape Closer to the Brink of Extinction

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Rare Sightings of Critically Endangered Vaquita Spark Cautious Optimism About the Species’ Ability to Recover

By Teresa Tomassoni

Trump Administration Suggests Listing Florida’s Elusive Ghost Orchid as Endangered

By Amy Green

The Sage Grouse Could Face More Development in Its Critical Habitat Under Trump

By Jake Bolster

Political Whiplash Is Terrible for Wolves’ Future. But More Is Coming.

By Jake Bolster, Kiley Price

Activists Decry New Border Wall’s Impact on Wildlife

By Anita Snow, National Catholic Reporter

The Trump Administration Dismisses the Endangered Species List as ‘Hotel California.’ But There’s Far More to the Story

By Kiley Price