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A black-footed ferret in their enclosure.

Science and Technology

Innovative Cloning Advancements for Black-footed Ferret Conservation

A black and white marbled murrelet floating in calm water

Endangered Species Act

Revised Marbled Murrelet Inland Survey Protocol

Habitat Restoration

Fish and Wildlife Service Pursues Nature-Based Solutions

a yellow bird with a short bill sits on a branch with green leaves

Birds on the Brink

Endangered Species Act

Interior Department Finalizes Action to Strengthen Endangered Species Act

5 brown coal darters in a viewing container.

Endangered Species Act

Coal Darter Proposed Listing

Big Black rocksnails in water

Science and Technology

Extinct Mississippi snail rediscovered: landowner partnerships key to conservation success

Female Grizzly Bear

Wildlife Management

As Grizzly Bears Emerge from Dens, Wildlife Managers Ask Public to Help Keep Bears Wild

A National Park Service biologist studies a nesting Kemp's ridley sea turtle and records data.

Wildlife Wonders

Public Urged to Help Protect Sea Turtles as Nesting Season Arrives in Texas

A picture of a roseate tern, and black and white bird on a beach

Habitat Restoration

Plan to restore natural resources in Buzzards Bay targets Ram Island, home to endangered terns.

Land Management

For Peat's Sake

National Guard protects last eastern population of rare butterfly

A pale coral-colored Miami cave crayfish faces the camera while underwater.

Endangered Species Act

Miami Cave Crayfish

Dark colored gray wolf with a Uinta ground squirrel in its mouth

Endangered Species Act

USFWS releases final EIS & draft decision to designate a gray wolf experimental population in Colorado

An adult Chinook salmon leaps out of the rushing white water in Pacific Northwest

Endangered Species Act

Interior Department Announces Millions to Conserve America’s Most Imperiled Species

A wild cat with brown, white, and black markings gazes upward

Endangered Species Act

Service Seeks Public Input on Plan to Expand Ocelot Range in South Texas

Picture of Quitobaquito spring in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Endangered Species Act

Springsnail Quitobaquito Tryonia Proposed Listing

Tally Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

Endangered Sea Turtle Found Stranded in Wales Returning to Texas

An olive green frog sits partially covered by shallow water

Endangered Species Act

Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog Receives ESA Protections

Endangered Species Act

Service Finds Listing Not Warranted for Three Southeastern Species

A small yellow flower on a thin green stalk in the foreground, with blurred stalks in the background.

Endangered Species Act

Beardless Chinchweed Final Recovery Plan

Endangered Species Act

Proposed Listing for Two Rare Texas Cavefish

a crayfish in a net

Endangered Species Act

Service Proposes to List Brawleys Fork Crayfish with 4(d) Rule, Designate Critical Habitat

Endangered Species Act

Proposal to list the salamander mussel as endangered

Deep dive for mussel conservation

Endangered Species Act

FAQ: Final Rule to List Two Missouri Crayfishes

Image of dam with bridge overhead and fish passage structures in the foreground

Habitat Restoration

Fish Passage Projects Support Migrating Fish, Recreational Opportunities and Flood Prevention

How Great Lakes communities are helping the endangered piping plover recover

A Western bumble bee nest sits on a paper plate

Wildlife Wonders

Western bumble bee’s nest discovered

Endangered Species Act

Rufa red knot revised proposed critical habitat FAQs

Pair of oregon chub swimming

Endangered Species Act

Celebrating ESA's 50th - First Fish Ever Recovered

A pearl darter in water. The common name, pearl darter, is derived from iridescent patches on its gill covers resembling the coloration of a pearl.

Pearl Darter Critical Habitat FAQs

Cows in a grassy pasture next to a trench

Working Lands Win for Kincaid’s Lupine

Hands holding a small brown rabbit

Endangered Species Act

Small but Mighty, the Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit Scratches out a Living in Sagebrush Habitat

Partners break ground on largest salt marsh restoration on East Coast

Boosting bat immunity