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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 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.

Questions the overall mission behind habitat conservation plans (HCP) as it relates to helping save the habitats of threatened and endangered (T&E) species. Unanswered questions regarding HCP; Troubling aspects of HCP; Details regarding the final drafting stage of a HCP in Yolo County, California; Suggested solutions to the problems faced by the HCP.

The article notes that a federal judge in Portland, Oregon has decreed that the U.S. government needs to offer more help for improving the habitat of endangered salmon and steelhead fish in the Columbia River Basin. The recovery plan developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service calls for removing dams and increasing spill rates to aid endangered fish species in their journeys back to their spawning grounds.

The article reports on the protection of 10 species of penguins against climate change. An Arizona-based environmental group called the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) says that the government of U.S. is moving slowly in giving 10 species of penguins their protection against climate change. The legal code states that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) was supposed to make a decision by the end of November this year whether to list the penguins under the Endangered Species Act. The CBD says that they will sue the government again if they will not take in consideration the protection needed by the penguins.

Reports on the tussle between management and employees at Genentech over support of President Bush's refusal to sign the biodiversity treaty. Claims made by employees; Number of people who protested against management.

Reports that for almost all the success stories under the Endangered Species Act, there are many more plants and animals in the United States that are hanging on by a thread and going extinct, while they languish in bureaucratic limbo. New report from the US General Accounting Office (GAO); The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries have placed more than 650 species of domestic plants and animals on the endangered or threatened list; Low budget; More.

States that amphibian experts are coming to the defense of a Utah frog population that they believe is going to suffer from a controversial wildlife policy introduced by Interior Department Secretary Bruce Babbitt. Problems with the Wasatch Front plan; Three societies that are drafting a letter asking Babbitt to reconsider his plan.

Reports on the US Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) proposal to remove the peregrine falcon from the endangered species list. FWS's report that the falcon has recovered to a stable population level in 1970; Biologist groups' advise against delisting the species too soon; Declining falcon hatchings in New Mexico; FWS' utilization of breeding pairs as a measure of population health.