The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (together, the “Services”) recently issued a proposed rule adding a definition of “habitat” to the regulations implementing ...

Prompted in part by the travails of the dusky gopher frog, the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today finalized a formal definition of “habitat” for use under the Endangered Species Act.

The Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to define “habitat” in the Endangered Species Act for the first time, in response to a 2018 Supreme Court decision. As ...

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, Services) published a final rule rescinding the Trump administration’s 2020 final rule ...

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday narrowed habitat protections for endangered species, finalizing its second major rollback to the Endangered Species Act. The latest rule narrows the definition of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A gopher frog is pictured at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans on Sept. 27, 2011. The Biden administration on Thursday, June ...

FILE - This Aug. 19, 2015, file photo, shows a monarch butterfly in Vista, Calif. The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California's coast remained critically low for the second ...

The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals — potentially excluding areas that species could use in the future.

The U.S. Senate voted narrowly Thursday to overturn two Biden administration policies intended to protect endangered species. Senators called for reinstating a rule adopted under former President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows a northern long-eared bat. The U.S.