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The Indian River Lagoon, a long braid of brackish mangroves and shifting islands, runs along Florida’s Atlantic coast. It is home to 4,300 species, including many of the state’s remaining manatees, ...

The Trump administration has finalized one of the most significant changes to the Endangered Species Act in decades, eliminating a long-standing interpretation that protected the habitats of ...

On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act. “Nothing,” he said, “is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our ...

It wouldn't make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...

The Trump administration announced proposals Wednesday to roll back protections for plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock environmental law credited with rescuing the bald ...

The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ...

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Pangolin species across Africa and Asia are under threat from poaching, climate change and habitat loss. Fabian von Poser via Getty Images Federal officials have proposed declaring the pangolin ...

In response to recent vague pronouncements of “reasons of national security” by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a committee of President Donald Trump’s political appointees took the extraordinary ...

Four major updates could alter the way the act is administered—and how animals are protected. The bald eagle became one of the first species protected by the Endangered Species Act when the ...

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