The Latest Breaking News from Endangered Species

Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio put $200 million behind 100 endangered species across 30 countries. The list includes rare lemurs and pangolins to a ‘living fossil’ echidna

Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio have launched a $200 million conservation project to help 100 critically endangered species across 30 countries, including rare lemurs, pangolins, salamanders, tortoises and echidnas. The Phoenix Species Project will fund habitat restoration, conservation breeding, disease management and invasive-species control with support from local communities and…

The Economic Times · Aug 4

In 1991, America listed the razorback sucker as endangered; 35 years later, it has been moved to threatened after one population reached about 36,000 adults

After more than 30 years of conservation work, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has reclassified the razorback sucker from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The freshwater fish, found only in the Colorado River basin, has recovered through habitat restoration, fish stocking and control of invasive species.…

The Times of India · Jul 31

Paxton lawsuit prompts end of federal endangered species protection for Texas lizard

The state’s attorney general sued the Biden administration in 2024, citing incomplete data for the updated endangered status of the Permian Basin’s native dunes sagebrush lizard.

The Texas Tribune · Jul 29

Why Trump’s move to gut the Endangered Species Act likely won’t hold up in court

The Trump administration has decided that destroying the habitat of endangered species is not harmful.

The Conversation · Jul 17

Trump admin sued by 9 environmental groups over definition of 'harm'

Nine environmental organisations have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its decision to withdraw a long-standing interpretation of the Endangered Species Act that treated habitat destruction as a form of harm to protected wildlife, Reuters reported.

The Times of India · Jul 15

How redefining one word strips the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat

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 habitat.

The Conversation · Jul 11

Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife

The Trump administration has finalized a rule that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act

The Independent UK · Jul 11

‘Death sentence’: Trump administration to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining

Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct

The Guardian - US · Jul 10

Pacific gray whales facing ‘catastrophic’ die-off as climate crisis hits food supply

Trump administration urged to relist a species in ‘very, very serious trouble’ under Endangered Species Act

The Guardian - US · Jul 10

Why Vultures Are Irreplaceable Scavengers and What Their Extinction Means for India's Ecosystem

A stomach that kills anthraxVultures have gastric acid with a pH close to 1, among the most corrosive digestive environments measured in any vertebrate. A carcass infected with anthrax, botulinum toxin, or rabies virus passes through that acid and exits neutralised. No other scavenger in India's food web does this.…

Times Life · Jul 8