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A small brown bat with what looks like white powder on its nose. The white is in fact a fungus.

Wildlife Wonders

Do "bat” an eye. These critters need our help!

A flowering bush with small pale pink flowers

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service completes 90-day finding for species in California, Nevada and Oregon

Flat design graphic of wind turbines in the Ozark Mountains

New website launches to keep Carroll County informed about Nimbus Wind Farm project

A bright yellow flower in a desert landscape with mountains in the background

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determines Las Vegas bearpoppy does not need ESA protections

Endangered Species Act

Service proposes protections for the Bethany Beach firefly

Look & listen: Get to know the 'feisty' Owens pupfish

Ponds surrounded by browning grass. The pond in the foreground has algae growth and the day is sunny.

Endangered Species Act

Final Recovery Plan for Three Endangered Aquatic Invertebrates Available

Woman sitting on the forest floor examining something in a small tray she is holding

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Rare Spider Monitoring Season Comes to a Close in the Smoky Mountains Backcountry

A large male Suwannee alligator snapping turtle rests on a riverbank.

Wildlife Management

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Two butterflies on purple flowers with a building in the background

Snapshot: College Students Begin Semester-Long Service With Day at Asheville Pollinator Garden

Grizzly bear walking through a field

Endangered Species Act

Secure Food, Trash, Other Attractants: Help Protect Bears as They Prepare for Winter

An aerial view of a dry creek on the left and a blue body of water on the right, separated by green trees.

Habitat Restoration

$5 Million in BIL Funding Set to Transform Habitat for Bull Trout in Gold Creek

Endangered Species Act

Service Finalizes Listing for the Pearl River Map Turtle

a photo or a small fish

Endangered Species Act

Service Seeks Comment on Proposed Critical Habitat for the Barrens Topminnow

A Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan in summer plumage standing on light colored boulders

Endangered Species Act

Mount Rainier White-tailed Ptarmigan Federally Listed as Threatened Due to Climate Change Threat

Endangered Species Act

$48.4M for Collaborative Efforts to Conserve America’s Most Imperiled Species

Endangered Species Act

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Endangered Species Act

Rio Grande Chub and Sucker Not in Danger of Extinction

Green sea turtle trapped in jetty rocks in Texas

Green Sea Turtle Strandings Increase Along Jetties on the Texas Coast

large fish swimming upstream

Endangered Species Act

Draft Environmental Assessment for the Swan River Valley Bull Trout Recovery Project Available for Public Comment

Snail crawling up a vertical rock face

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conducts Five-Year Status Reviews of 59 Southeastern Species

Texas fatmucket

Endangered Species Act

Seven Central Texas Mussels Listed Under Endangered Species Act

Seeking public comment for Great Pathfinder Wind Project Habitat Conservation Plan

Jaguar

Endangered Species Act

The Service Finalizes Revisions to Jaguar Critical Habitat in Arizona

Big Black rocksnails in water

Science and Technology

Extinct Mississippi snail rediscovered: landowner partnerships key to conservation success

Land Management

For Peat's Sake

Proactive conservation supports species at risk

National Guard protects last eastern population of rare butterfly

a white plastic tray with nine partitions holds one light brown fairy shrimp in each partition. In the center is the text "the Branchi Bunch" in a font like the title of the sitcom, the Brady Bunch, to parody the opening title screen of the show.

Wildlife Wonders

Tune In to California's Vernal Pools

Endangered Species Act

FAQs – Withdrawal of the pyramid pigtoe from listing consideration

Migratory Species

Where do birds go offshore? The answers may be blowing in the wind

Habitat Restoration

Saving the Salt Marsh

Flowering bush with yellow flowers in the Florida scrub

Endangered Species Act

Recovering the Florida Golden Aster

Three people standing on a tractor-pulled seed planter, with a large tractor tire in the foreground.

Land Management

Snapshot: Planting the Seeds of Pollinator Conservation. Literally.

Two Florida Manatees in Three Sisters Springs surrounded by small fish

Endangered Species Act

Manatee Conservation in Georgia

Prescribed burn on island

Land Management

Burning for Biodiversity