WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- The International Union for Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, said Thursday 12 percent of the world's bird species face extinction.
WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is restoring protections for endangered species that were removed under the previous administration.
TUCSON, May 12 (UPI) -- An environmental group is threatening to sue the U.S. government for failing to draw up a plan to protect two coral species newly listed as endangered.
ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Scientists say for the first time in U.S. and probably global history a fish identified as endangered has been shown to have recovered. The population of shortnose sturgeon has increased by more than 400 percent in the Hudson River since the 1970s, Cornel
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. Interior Department official has rejected recommendations from staff scientists to protect endangered species at least six times in three years.
TUCSON, March 2 (UPI) -- The Tucson-based, Center for Biological Diversity has released a report praising the effectiveness of the federal Endangered Species Act.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The number of listed endangered species falls far short of the real count, Canadian researchers said in a study published in the journal Science.
GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 2 (UPI) --
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, April 8 (UPI) -- Scientists reported Tuesday one of the two cloned offspring of an endangered species developed health problems and had to be euthanized.
BOSTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts biotech company appears to be just several months away from the successful birth of the second ever endangered species to be cloned, United Press International has learned.