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How Successful Has the Endangered Species Act Been in its 5 Decades of Protection? Hint: It’s Very Good News
Reprinted via EarthTalk®, From the Editors of E - The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: The Endangered Species Act has been around for five decades. How...
Native Bumble Bees Are Poised to Be First Pollinators Protected Under California Endangered Species Act
The California Fish and Game Commission has voted to begin the process of classifying 4 species of bumble bee native to the state as endangered.
US Endangered Species Act Turns 40, With Hundreds of Comeback Stories
President Richard Nixon signed into law, 40 years ago on December 28, the strengthened Endangered Species Act after Congress realized that without further protection from...
Mexican Wolf Numbers Growing in U.S. for 8th Consecutive Year, Soon to Be Howling at a Reserve Near You
The wild population of Mexican wolves saw another year of growth in 2023, according to the results of the annual survey published by the...
Good News in History, December 28
50 years ago today, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a literary investigation of the prison-labor camp system in the Soviet Union between 1918...
US Appeals Court Rules the Approval of Human Antibiotic as a Citrus Pesticide by EPA to Be Unlawful
In a win for public health, pollinators, and the environment, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this month in favor of farmworkers...
Good News in History, November 3
118 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
Texas Lists Two Critical Pollinator Flowers as Endangered Species, Practically Guaranteeing Milkweed Recovery
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has taken steps to practically guarantee the survival of a beautiful pink wildflower in Texas just a...
North America’s Only Native Stork Poised to Fly off the Endangered Species List
After teetering on the edge of extinction almost 50 years ago, the wood stork is now widespread across the southeastern US, and is preparing...
Two Channel Island Plants Found Nowhere Else are Off Endangered Species List and Now Flourishing
Two plants that live on California’s Channel Islands and nowhere else on earth have reached recovery thanks to Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections.
The Santa...
Georgia Sets Turtle Record With Most Loggerhead Nests Ever Counted on the Beach –LOOK
Loggerhead sea turtle nesting in Georgia hit a new high this week as the big reptiles beat their modern-day best for most nests on...
500 Acres of Old Growth Redwood Forests Donated to Tribal Council for Lasting Protection in Mendocino, Calif
For a second time, the nonprofit Save the Redwoods League has orchestrated a donation of coastal redwood forestland to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council...
Endangered Humpback Whales Gain New Protections in Pacific Ocean From the U.S
The U.S. administration has announced it will be officially protecting 116,098 square nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean as critical habitat for three populations...
Stuck At Home on Earth Day? Here’s How to Connect with Nature Right Where You Are
There are dozens of ways for you to connect with nature while you're stuck in quarantine—but here are just a few methods to celebrate the 50th Earth Day.
Endangered Condors to Return to Northern California Skies After Nearly a Century
For the first time in 100 years, the endangered California condor will return to the Pacific Northwest.
Once on the brink of extinction, this iconic species has...
After Facing Extinction, This Midwestern Bird is Now Soaring Off Endangered Species List
The interior least tern, a bird which survived waves of attacks from dam building, hat making, and more, can now be classified as an...
In ‘Huge Victory for Polar Bears’, Court Rejects Arctic Offshore Drilling Project
Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled on an offshore oil drilling project in the Arctic, polar bear protectors finally have a...
Howling With Joy: After 45 Years, the Gray Wolf Has Successfully Been Lifted Off the US Endangered Species List
45 years since one of the most charismatic and persecuted carnivores on Earth was listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), management of the...
Fires Have Helped These Endangered Woodpeckers Make a Comeback, and It’s a Reminder of Nature’s Resiliency
It's hard to imagine that the infernos burning in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges in California and Oregon would be good for...
Scientists Find Only The Third Manta Ray Nursery in the World, “Right Under Our Nose” Off Florida Coast
In what is only the third-such discovery in science, an ultra-rare manta ray nursery was found right under scientists' noses off the busy coast...