Protect the Endangered Species Act

NRDC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have entered into a settlement agreement requiring EPA to evaluate the impacts of bee-killing neonicotinoid insecticides, or "neonics," on species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. After four years of litigation, the agreement ensures that EPA completes its analysis of all neonic products by October 2024, paving the way for restrictions to protect imperiled species.

Keyen Singer, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, carries on a maternal legacy of conserving salmon and preserving culture. Their efforts could soon pay off.

While it feels strange to wish you a “happy endangered species day,” there is some good news as of late.

The lawsuit is a response to the Trump administration’s recent dismantling of our most effective law for protecting wildlife—the worst blow to the act since its inception.

Conservation scientists say giraffes are headed toward extinction. Now the U.S. government must catch up with the scientific consensus.

From coastal tide pools and rolling prairies to African savanna and arctic terrain, the earth is home to myriad ecosystems, each one regulated by interlinking parts, including the creatures that call them home.

We got ourselves into this mess. It’s high time we got ourselves out of it.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to cut wolves loose for the better part of a decade—and now the Trump administration is letting it happen.

As the threat from offshore drilling looms large, the species’ population has dwindled to just 33 individuals. Now they have a chance to survive.

The Interior Department should’ve designated critical habitat for the rusty patched bumblebee—a year ago.

These nine bills would weaken the Endangered Species Act—and put our nation’s wildlife at risk.

This conservation law has been saving our flora and fauna since the 1970s. The Trump administration should stop fiddling with it.

In the latest string of attacks on our nation’s natural heritage, the Congressional Western Caucus has put forth the Expanded Wildlife Extinction Package, a suite of nine bills that would weaken the Endangered Species Act.

And the Trump administration’s gutting of the Endangered Species Act will only make things worse.

Tahlequah is one of only 75 Southern Resident Killer Whales left in the wild. To save them and other imperiled wildlife, we must stop the Trump administration from gutting the Endangered Species Act.

Four out of five of us express support for the Endangered Species Act. Its attackers should take note.

NRDC is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for greenlighting the use of neonics without first considering their harm to endangered species.

The Trump administration backed away from its freeze on listing the rusty patched bumblebee as an endangered species.

The critically endangered Florida panther is battling ongoing threats to its survival.

Another day, another ESA “reform” bill.

Scientists want to round up the world’s last vaquitas to protect them from extinction. Cue Flipper.