endangered species

The program needed four county staff members to meet to review applications for the trust. But for four years, they couldn't manage to organize a meeting, delaying an application now at the center of the Miami Wilds project.

The Center For Biological Diversity has asked a federal judge to reconsider its decision to not add the rare skink, found only in the Lower Keys and Dry Tortugas, to the Endangered Species List.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to designate an area three times the size of Lake Okeechobee as critical habitat for Florida’s rare bonneted…

Sometimes the best science comes from an idle, casual observation. Take Isaac Newton. Or Josh Diamond.Diamond was finishing his doctoral degree in…

A Republican Congressman from Florida sent a letter to the Trump Administration Monday criticizing its plans to weaken protections for endangered species.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife officials Thursday evening faced a crowd of Keys residents strongly opposed to removing the Key deer from the Endangered Species…

Update: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is holding a meeting this week on delisting endangered species. Officials only plan to talk about Key deer,...

The federal government is considering removing the iconic Key deer from the Endangered Species List.Key deer, a small subspecies of the North American…

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says the revisions will make the landmark conservation law more efficient. Critics say it will hurt endangered plants and animals as they face mounting threats.

When the Key Largo cotton mouse and woodrat were placed on the Endangered Species List in 1984, federal scientists named several factors that were…

The state wildlife agency is taking the next step toward establishing — or re-establishing — the American Flamingo as a Floridian bird.Flamingos had been…

The Miami Blue is the Rasputin of butterflies.But biologists are hoping for a happier ending for the Miami Blue than the early 20th Century Russian mystic…