Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. The Trump administration is proposing to change the definition of “harm” under the regulation of the Endangered Species Act. For decades ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services on Thursday announced a new rule reversing a Trump-era definition of “habitat” as applied to endangered animals. Under the 2020 rule, the definition of ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday narrowed habitat protections for endangered species, finalizing its second major rollback to the Endangered Species Act. The latest rule narrows the definition of ...

Improving incentives for landowners is a more effective way to conserve habitat than imposing burdensome regulatory mandates on them. Words have meaning — or at least they should. And a high-profile ...

Thank you for publishing Malcolm G. Scully’s “Are You a Lumper or a Splitter?” (August 16, The Review). The issues are by no means limited to birds. ... A great many of my colleagues around the very ...

Cornell Lab of Ornithology is at it again. This time, they are instigating the unification of the whole world of birds, the bird checklists of the American Ornithological Society, BirdLife ...

FILE - This Aug. 19, 2015, file photo, shows a monarch butterfly in Vista, Calif. The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California's coast remained critically low for the second ...

The Trump administration’s definition was at odds with the conservation purposes of the Endangered Species Act, wildlife officials said. By Catrin Einhorn The Biden administration is throwing out the ...