Search

The article discusses efforts to protect endangered species as of 2018. Particular focus is given to how spending for organisms protected under the U.S. Endangered Species act is misdirected. Additional topics discussed include how human activity is putting Canada's Woodland Caribou in danger, the negative environmental impact of the oil and gas industry, and the triage approach to endangered species protection.

The article discusses the differences between spring and autumn running Chinook salmon. The spring-running salmon that face impediments to their spawning from dams built along the Klamath River in California and legal efforts have been made to add the species to the threatened or endangered species under the under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Scientists have determined that a single gene differentiates spring and fall species of salmon.

The article reports that the U.S. President Joe Biden promised that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finished to withdraw changes to the Endangered Species Act by former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration that governs when property owners may damage habitat needed by endangered species.

The article reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared that one of North America's best known butterflies, the monarch, might be in trouble. It mentions agency put off protecting the insect under the federal Endangered Species Act, in part because it said its resources are limited and other species are in greater need of help. It also mentions insects face threats including habitat loss and pesticides and researchers have argued for years that more milkweed could help.

The article discusses the changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the U.S. It is noted that some of the changes will make it difficult to protect species and their habitats. It mentions the changes that limit the government's ability to protect habitat that species need to adapt to climate change and make it harder for the public to hold the federal government accountable for activities that endanger species.

The article offers science-related news briefs. Two U.S. agencies and the science ministry in Cuba teamed up to manage and study marine protected areas. Scientists and wildlife managers, in a letter addressed to the U.S. interior secretary, Sally Jewell, argues the removal of the gray wolves, Canis lupus, from the federal Endangered Species Act. The fossils of the Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur will be on display in December 2015 at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, Germany.

The article reports on the termination made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services on Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in January 2021, with the caveat that a status review to determine whether relisting is warranted could be prompted. Topics discussed include argument by those promoting these massive statewide hunts, basis of the delisting decision, and the hunting limits approved in Montana and Idaho.

The article discusses changes made by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to how federal agencies interpret and apply the Endangered Species Act, causing threatened species to receive less protection than those listed as endangered.

The article offers information on a petition filed by the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under which captive populations of 11 threatened primate species are exempt from protection under theU.S. Endangered Species Act.

The article reports that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has urged to consider repealing a rule that exempts captive members of 11 threatened primate species from protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), as of March 2017. It mentions that among the 11 species, the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) appears to be the only one regularly used in U.S. research.

The article opines citizen participation in identifying at-risk species for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act is more effective than relying on the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) selections because research shows citizens choose more biologically threatened species and subspecies than the FWS and also argues citizen involvement should not be eliminated.

The article discusses the role of captive breeding of threatened species in global biodiversity conservation, an approach that recognizes the significance of threatened habitats in the endangerment of certain species. Captive breeding reportedly is recognized as a valid approach to species protection by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and Article 9 of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Pros and cons of captive breeding are articulated and the International Species Information System (ISIS) database is used to estimate species held in zoos and aquariums worldwide.

The article focuses on the U.S. Department of the Interior's decision to not list the greater sage grouse as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; is also discusses a voluntary incentive-based approach to encourage preservation and restoration of the bird's habitat.

The article reports on an announcement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that captive chimpanzees are being classified as as endangered species and discusses the implications for biomedical research. It notes that the action was taken in response to challenges to the USFWS's earlier 1990 decision to designate wild chimpanzees but not captive chimpanzees as endangered. Topics include the U.S. Endangered Species Act, primatologist Jane Goodall, and chimpanzees in AIDS research.