An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

Fish and Wildlife Service memo calls for change in what it means to ‘take’ an endangered species ...

The US president says the move will help ranchers, but conservationists say it could derail efforts to recover populations.

“Really an assault on the act like we’ve never seen before,” a law professor at Harvard University who previously worked for ...

The Trump administration's top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered ...

A coalition of state attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s rollbacks of protections for endangered species. The lawsuits, filed by 20 states and ...

The Department of Interior redefined what it means to ‘harm’ an endangered species — it no longer includes destroying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is removing protections from the key places where endangered species live, saying states can keep the ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a motion today to intervene in the federal permitting process for an underwater data center proposed off the coast of Maine. The proposed project could harm ...

The Trump Administration is proposing to narrow the prohibition against "taking" endangered species by removing regulatory language allowing federal wildlife agencies to consider how species are ...

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 ...

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 ...