by Beth Holmes | Jun 6, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Manatees are starving in Florida waters, only five years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) took them off the Endangered Species list. In the 1960s and ’70s, the West Indian manatee, which is native to Florida waters, was down to only a few hundred...
by Admin | Jul 10, 2014 | Articles
Three environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to force the federal government to make more aggressive protection efforts for the prairie chicken. The lawsuit comes from a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in March to list the lesser...
by Admin | Oct 2, 2013 | Articles
White Rhinos are becoming a thing of the past. Sadly, their numbers have been on the decline for decades. In response to that, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have placed the rhino under the protection of the Endangered Species Act. This is the last species of...
by Admin | Sep 18, 2013 | Articles, Conservation, Profiles
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is there to protect our wild spaces and endangered animals. This governmental agency has been around since 1871, and it isn’t going away any time soon. The organization is now broken down into several different branches, which...