The lawsuit asks the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend federal protection to hellbenders — a type of salamander considered an icon in Appalachia.

The Center and allies first filed a legal petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for eastern hellbenders in 2010. After a decade of delay and two lawsuits to enforce listing deadlines, in ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and a broad coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Trump administration today over its rollback of the landmark scientific finding that forms the ...

A national nonprofit organization has sued The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) after it says the agency failed to finalize protection for eastern hellbender ...

Environmentalists are petitioning federal authorities to protect a rare yellow sunflower threatened by the millions of visitors who flock to Red Rock Canyon each year.

Governments agreed on a resource mobilization strategy that will establish the permanent arrangements for the financial mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity and mobilise the mixture of ...

A conservation group is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, arguing its decision not to release a national gray wolf recovery plan violates the Endangered Species Act.

How can we explain the morphological diversity of living organisms? Although genetics is the answer that typically springs to mind, it is not the only explanation. By combining observations of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Will emerging conservation frameworks rise to the challenge? The biodiverse Sepik River region in eastern Papua New Guinea is thought to harbor ...

Decision 15/9 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was envisioned as a multilateral mechanism to fund conservation via the sharing of benefits arising from the use of digital sequence ...

Today, the Council approved conclusions in view of the Conference of Parties on the Convention on biological diversity (COP16) and the meetings on the Cartagena protocol and the Nagoya protocol, to be ...