Endangered species are animals that are at risk of disappearing forever, typically animals with dangerously low population numbers, shrinking habitats and a loss of geographic range. There are animals ...

Learn about the world’s most endangered animals, including the threats they face and the conservation efforts to protect them. You might be eating endangered shark meat You might be eating endangered ...

A polar bear stood outside the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday with a message: “Stop ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

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 ...

Trump officials have proposed changing a decades-old interpretation of a key word in the Endangered Species Act, which would make it much easier to log, build or drill for oil. By Lisa Friedman 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 ...

A monarch butterfly lands on a zinia at Verrill Farm on September 26, 2025. A monarch butterfly lands on a zinia at Verrill Farm on September 26, 2025.John Tlumacki—The Boston Globe/Getty Images ...

On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law. For nearly two years, the legislation’s supporters had fought to keep its language straightforward and its ...

New Jersey has reclassified 30 wildlife species found in the state as endangered or threatened, environmental officials announced this week. The new additions to New Jersey’s endangered species list ...