Program Term Archive
Endangered Species
Trump Administration Seeks to Slash Habitat Protections for Endangered Wildlife
Press ReleaseApril 17, 2025Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeToday the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (the Services) issued a proposed rule that would undermine protections for habitat that threatened and endangered species need to...
National Endangered Species Coalition Responds to Republican-led Congressional Attacks on ESA and Gray Wolves
Press ReleaseMarch 25, 2025Endangered Species, Terrestrial WildlifeToday, the Republican-led US House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries considered legislation that would dramatically weaken the widely popular Endangered Species Act and strip protections for gray wolves in 48 states....
UNESCO Keeps Mexico Vaquita Habitat on World Heritage ‘In Danger’ List
Press ReleaseJuly 23, 2024Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeThe UNESCO World Heritage Committee renewed its call today for urgent action to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in Mexico. With merely six to eight individuals estimated remaining, the vaquita faces...
USMCA Council to Investigate Mexico’s Failure to Protect the Vaquita
Press ReleaseJune 27, 2024Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeAfter a two-year delay, the Council of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) voted unanimously yesterday to investigate Mexico’s failure to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. Mexico has not enforced its own...
New Survey: No More Than Eight Vaquita Remain
Press ReleaseJune 18, 2024Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeOnly six to eight critically endangered vaquita may remain on the planet, the Mexican government announced last week in reporting the results of a new survey. Compared to the 8...
Big Money Talks in Fight to Save Endangered Monkeys from Extinction
Press ReleaseJune 5, 2024Animals in Laboratories, Endangered SpeciesThis month, a committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is scheduled to determine whether long-tailed macaques (LTMs) should continue to be classified as “endangered” on its...
USFWS Increases African Elephant Protections, But Misses Crucial Opportunities
Press ReleaseApril 1, 2024Endangered Species, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for releasing a final rule today that provides additional Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled African elephants. However, AWI...
Biden Administration’s ESA Regulations Restore Important Protections to Imperiled Species, But Don’t Go Far Enough
Press ReleaseMarch 29, 2024Endangered SpeciesThe Biden administration has released three Endangered Species Act regulations that reinstate some critical protections for imperiled species and their habitats, yet fail to reverse many of the dangerous rollbacks implemented by...
Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth Proposed for ESA Listing In Response to AWI Petition
Press ReleaseMarch 27, 2024Endangered SpeciesThe US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed listing the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act in response to a 2013 emergency petition filed by the Animal Welfare Institute...
Africa’s Atlantic Humpback Dolphins Win US Endangered Species Protections
Press ReleaseFebruary 20, 2024Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeThe National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that the highly imperiled Atlantic humpback dolphin will be protected under the US Endangered Species Act. Atlantic humpback dolphins are found only along...