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Endangered Species Act

Loggerhead sea turtles.

It’s Not Easy Being a Sea Turtle, but Marine Center in Florida Tries to Help

Juno Beach is one of the world’s most densely populated sea turtle nesting sites.
By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
Sen. John Barrasso.

Republicans Get Big Money to Fight Endangered Species Protections

Mining, oil and gas industries lobby to have the Act repealed.
By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
A 2-year-old Florida panther is released into the wild by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Ranchers and Developers Push to Remove Florida Panther From Endangered Species List

Signs of recovery might lead to loss of protections.
By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
A giraffe walks across a savanna at the Mashatu game reserve in Mapungubwe, Botswana.

Global Giraffe Population Decimated by Trophy Hunting and Local Pressures

By Michael Sainato
A northern white female rhinoceros, one of only five members of the sub-species left on the planet, in Kenya.

World’s Richest Countries Are Letting Animals Go Extinct

By Michael Sainato
An illustration of two Tasmanian Tigers. The last of the species died in 1932.

Why Scientists Are Resuming the Search for Extinct Tasmanian Tiger

By Chelsea Skojec and Michael Sainato
Rep. Don Young (center) speaks during a press conference in Washington, D.C. in 2001.

Republican Congressman Wants to Scale Back American Elephant Ivory Ban

By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
A little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vt.

White-Nose Syndrome Decimating Bat Populations Across US

By Michael Sainato
A 10 month old orphaned Bornean Orangutan learns to bite at Surabaya Zoo as he prepares to be released into the wild in Surabaya, Indonesia. )

Scientists Warn Primates Face Impending Extinction Crisis

By Chelsea Skojec and Michael Sainato
Wolves continue to be targeted though their population is shrinking.

Fear and Misinformation Fuel Government Killings of Wolves

By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
We often ignore hard-charging problems.

Wildlife Poaching Police Just Got a New Weapon

By Roman Goergen
North American jaguar.

Donald Trump’s Border Wall Would Have Wild Victims

By Eric Scigliano
Volunteers carry elephant tusks to a burning site on April 22, 2016 for a historic destruction of illegal ivory and rhino-horn confiscated mostly from poachers in Nairobi's national park. Kenya on April 30, 2016 will burn approximately 105 tonnes of confiscated ivory, almost all of the country's total stockpile. Several African heads of state, conservation experts, high-profile philanthropists and celebrities are slated to be present at the event which they hope will send a strong anti-poaching message.

Why We’ll Blame the EU for the Extinction of Elephants

By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
Schaus' Swallowtail (Papilio Aristodemus) butterflies copulate in the branch of an Anacahuita (Schinus molle) in Pinamar, some 40km east of Montevideo on February 6, 2008.

How Saving an Endangered Butterfly Helped Avert a Health Crisis

By Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec
BLOOMINGTON, MN - JULY 29: Protesters place stuffed animals on the sign of Dr. Walter Palmer's River Bluff Dental Clinic to call attention to the alleged poaching of Cecil the lion on July 29, 2015 in Bloomington, Minnesota. According to reports, the 13-year-old lion was lured out of a national park in Zimbabwe and killed by Dr. Palmer, who had paid at least $50,000 for the hunt. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

Why Those Outraged Over Cecil the Lion’s Killing Need to Cut It Out

By Michele Wucker
(Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images for The Oceanic Preservation Society)

Animal Empire: Wildlife Roam Up Manhattan’s Most Famous Building

By Michael Albo

Science, Governor Palin and Environmental Policy

By Steve Cohen
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