The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA) with the Trinity River Authority of Texas (TRA) to conserve six imperiled species. Agreement with Trinity River Authority will protect four mussels, two turtles.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced March 5 that the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest grew by 15 last year — from 242 in 2022 to 257 in 2023. Of those 257 wolves, 144 were observed or tracked in western New Mexico and 113 in eastern Arizona.

NOAA Fisheries announced a new $500,000 agreement with NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) to assist NOAA in identifying, advancing the development of and selecting technologies to support endangered North Atlantic right whale recovery efforts.

A host of new measures to safeguard migratory species, have been adopted at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) recently concluded in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

NOAA Fisheries on February 20 announced that highly imperiled Atlantic humpback dolphins will be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

The first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report was recently launched by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a UN biodiversity treaty, at the opening of a major UN wildlife conservation conference (CMS COP14).

Conservation groups asked a federal court on February 13 to allow paused litigation to proceed in pursuit of a deadline for final action on a proposed rule expanding protections for North Atlantic right whales from deadly vessel strikes.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of conservation groups and the state of Hawai‘i, allowing a project to suppress mosquitos to protect imperiled Hawaiian honeycreepers on east Maui to proceed.

For the first time, pollutants from burning fossil fuels have been found embedded in corals, offering scientists a potential new tool to track the history of pollution, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

A federal judge on February 8 approved an agreement between conservation groups and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that puts the agency on a prompt schedule to consider and designate critical habitat for highly endangered rusty patched bumblebees.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed the initial 90-day finding on a petition to list the Kings River pyrg, a small springsnail found in northern Nevada, under the Endangered Species Act.

A lizard species once feared to be vanishingly scarce is now known to have several thriving populations across its historical range in the Edwards Plateau region of Central and West Texas, as unveiled by recent research.  As a result of these findings, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing a 12-month finding that the Plateau spot-tailed earless lizard will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act.

The Center for Biological Diversity and American Bird Conservancy on February 5 reminded federal agencies, including the Council on Environmental Quality and U.S. Department of Energy, of their duty to comply with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. This includes taking measures to reduce migratory bird collisions as agencies launch “green” renovations to dozens of federal buildings.

Recognizing that the national discussion around gray wolf management must look more comprehensively at conservation tools available to federal, state and Tribal governments, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a path to support a long term and durable approach to the conservation of gray wolves, to include a process to develop – for the first time – a National Recovery Plan under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for gray wolves in the lower 48 states.

The Government of the Virgin Islands has joined forces with the Association of Reef Keepers (ARK) and Rethink Rebuild Regenerating “rrreefs” to revive coastal reefs in the Virgin Islands.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently approved an 18-month arrangement for Cameroon under the IMF Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) for a total amount of SDR 138 million (about US$183.4 million, 50 percent of quota), with disbursements to start when the First Review of the arrangement is completed.

The USGS used multiple research strategies from statistical modeling to laboratory experiments to sampling in more than 400 streams across the United States. Scientists determined that four pesticides – bifenthrin, chlordane, fipronil and imidacloprid – were each likely impacting the health of aquatic invertebrates at the regional scale in at least one of the five regions studied.

The Department of Commerce and NOAA announced plans for $27 million to recover threatened and endangered Pacific salmon in the face of climate change.

NOAA Fisheries and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a final joint strategy to protect and promote the recovery of endangered North Atlantic right whales while responsibly developing offshore wind energy.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity to reintroduce jaguars to the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.