The Trump administration proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species Wednesday. A draft rule from the Fish ...

A proposed rule would narrow the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act and could open the door to more mining, ...

The critically endangered species is said to be "the rarest of all cats" with less than 100 of them left in the world. But if ...

A 14-year-old endangered creature has been welcomed by a zoo in California, officials said. On March 10, Labu, a Sumatran orangutan, arrived at the San Diego Zoo from the Fresno Chaffee Zoo as part of ...

The first wild eggs of an endangered bird have been laid for the first time in almost four decades, and the Cincinnati Zoo & ...

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world.

"The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: Once a species enters, they never leave," Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum wrote Cover Images via AP Images; Getty Images ...

A baby manatee swimming beside its mother comes to the surface to breathe, at Manatee Lagoon, in Riviera Beach (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

President Trump plans to overhaul the Endangered Species Act to make it easier to build in the U.S. where endangered species live, a White House official confirmed Wednesday. The president has ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of “harm” to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to ...

A Trump official is coming after the real menace plaguing America: those gosh-darn freeloaders moping around the endangered species list. On Monday, interior secretary Doug Burgum suggested that ...