Endangered Species Act Decision

WildEarth Guardians and the Department of Interior reached an important agreement on May 10th in which the US Fish and Wildlife Service has committed to making final Endangered Species Act listing determinations by September 2016 for 251 species that have been on hold for too long. “We are very hopeful that the major...

Tortoise VHS and GPS

If you travel to Las Vegas anytime soon, know that you will be in the neighborhood of 36 special tortoises. The San Diego Global Action Team recently rele...

Endangered Species Act

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 was intended to protect species which were threatened by extinction. It is jointly administered by the US Fish and Wildl...

Conservation Cooperation

Cooperation is key when it comes to conservation. That is why the Alaskan Department of Fish and Game has teamed up with the US Fish & Wildlife Servic...

Moving Turtles to Safety

Among the videos on National Geographic’s website is a Gulf Turtle Eggs Relocated video about volunteers moving loggerhead turtle eggs to a new,...

Creating Wetlands for Birds

The U.S. Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative has announced that they are willing to pay up to $20 million to Gulf of Mexico area landowners to flood their fields in hopes of attracting migrating birds to the clean water.  An estimated 1 billion birds wi...

Conservation at Stanford

Good for Stanford University!  They care about conserving the endangered species on their lands, which include the California tiger salamander, steelhead, California red-legged frog, Western pond turtle and San Francisco garter snake. The University...

State of the Birds

Nearly a third of the United States’ 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and several leading conservation organizations. The organizations recently released a report (The State...