As many readers may already know, the Bush administration has decided to make one last assault on the Endangered Species Act before leaving office for good. Apparently it’s not enough that the Bush administration has repeatedly refused to list endangered species during the last eight years unless forced to by a court of law — [...]

In past blog posts, I’ve discussed the raging controversy that currently exists along the U.S./Mexico border where the Bush administration has waived countless federal laws in order to rush the construction of a poorly planned and largely ineffective border wall that is supposed to enhance our national security.
On June 27, the Texas Observer provided some [...]

The Associated Press reports that seven endangered California condors — about 20 percent of Southern California’s population — have been found with lead poisoning.
The birds were found about a month ago during trappings at Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, which is located in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley foothills of Kern County, California. One bird [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently reported that this is shaping up to be a good year for endangered red wolves in eastern North Carolina:

April and May are very exciting months for red wolves - both in the wild and in captivity. It’s pup season! This annual occurrence finds Red Wolf Recovery Program, USFWS, [...]

Red Orbit News recently reported on a story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the struggles to restore the endangered whooping crane.
First, the good news:

A record six pairs of whooping cranes have been seen incubating eggs this month on Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, ground zero in the effort to reintroduce the rarest of all the [...]

According to the St. Petersburg Times, a decision has been made to split up next year’s crop of endangered whooping crane young that are part of the eastern migratory flock. Each year, new crane young are led by ultralight from Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin to Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
The Times [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that a white fungus may have contributed to the deaths of some 8,000-10,000 bats in upstate New York last year, and once again this year, biologists are seeing the fungus on hibernating bats in New York and Vermont.
The Indiana bat, which is an endangered species, is one of [...]

These are tough times for gray wolves in America. In Alaska, wolves are cruelly hunted from the air despite efforts by Alaskans to end this practice. And now the Bush administration’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to take wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains off the endangered species list so the states of Idaho, [...]

Speaking of the famous whooping cranes (see previous entry), the class of 2007 has finally finished its migration from Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin down to Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
After traveling an accumulated distance of 1262.1 miles that took over three months to complete, the young endangered birds are in their [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently reported that the most highly endangered duck species — the Laysan duck or Laysan teal — is making a comeback on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, which is near the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago.
According to the USGS:

In 2004 and 2005, 42 wild, [...]