the Endangered Species Act has been a failure. To begin with, there are more endangered and threatened species than ever before. When the law went into effect in 1973, fewer than 130 species were ...

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 ...

The Endangered Species Act was signed into law in 1973 by Republican President Richard Nixon and now protects more than 1,200 plant and animal species. The list of species is maintained by US Fish ...

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed new protections for giraffes, saying their populations are threatened by ...

In both cases, the FWS has called its proposal a response to declining giraffe populations. Since 1985, the total number of the three northern giraffe subspecies has declined by 77 percent, from ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker in the Southeast is no longer federally endangered, thanks to decades of conservation work; the ...

The Endangered Species Act, enacted in 1973, establishes protections for fish, wildlife and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered. Under the act, federal agencies are required to ...