The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized revisions to Endangered Species Act regulations, including a provision allowing some areas to be excluded from critical-habitat designations when the exclusion would not cause a species’ extinction.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries finalized nationwide revisions to regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act, including removal of the regulatory definition of “harm.”
A proposed Fish and Wildlife Service rule would give Western states and tribes a larger role in grizzly-bear management while keeping the species protected under federal law.
A proposed federal rule would keep lower-48 grizzlies threatened while conditionally expanding state, tribal and park management authority.
South Sudan’s first UNESCO World Heritage property protects a vast wildlife migration, but its simultaneous danger listing highlights urgent conservation threats.
