The federal government moved Tuesday to further protect chimpanzees, proposing to change the animals' endangered status and increase oversight of their use in research.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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The Obama administration is proposing to end recovery efforts for gray wolves across most of the U.S. and return management to the states.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 07, 2013 3 / 5 (3) 0

A fungus that has decimated amphibians globally is much older than previously thought, but may have recently spread through the global wildlife trade to new locations where amphibians have no immunity, reports ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 30, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

In a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers led by NJIT Associate Professor Gareth Russell has applied a novel method for linking large-scale habitat fragmentation to popula ...

Biology - Ecology

May 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

California wildlife officials in say an invasion of aggressive lice is causing deer across the state to go bald and is linked to numerous deer deaths.

Biology - Ecology

May 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

Efforts to conserve biodiversity in the UK, Belgium and Netherlands may be working, despite the widespread perception that wildlife is in terminal decline, a new study suggests.

Biology - Ecology

May 23, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

British wildlife is under serious threat, according to a major new study out Wednesday, which found that 60 percent of species assessed have declined in numbers over the past 50 years.

Biology - Ecology

May 22, 2013 not rated yet 0

A new study suggests that overgrazing and other factors increase the severity of cheatgrass invasion in sagebrush steppe, one of North America's most endangered ecosystems.

Biology - Ecology

May 13, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

When determining the potential effects pesticides could pose to endangered or threatened species, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) should ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

Trapped in a steel cage barely big enough to hold her, the large squirrel was not happy, pawing at the bars and trying them with her teeth. Matt Whitbeck and Cherry Keller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were glad to ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

Since 1997, a shrubby perennial found only in East Texas has been on a waiting list to be officially declared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A ruling on the fate of the ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

The Huemul, a species of deer found only in the Latin American region of Patagonia, is bouncing back from the brink of possible extinction as a result of collaboration between conservationists and the Chilean ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP)—India's Supreme Court on Monday ordered western Gujarat state to share some of its endangered lions with a neighboring state to create a second home for them.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 15, 2013 not rated yet 0

Leading international marine scientists have called for the protection of more, large marine wilderness areas in a bid to shield the world's dwindling stocks of fish from destruction.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) looked at the vulnerability of 54 breeding bird species to climate change impacts occurring by the year 2050 in Arctic Alaska. The assessment found ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 03, 2013 2.3 / 5 (3) 3