The Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to define “habitat” in the Endangered Species Act for the first time, in response to a 2018 Supreme Court decision. As ...

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...

Prompted in part by the travails of the dusky gopher frog, the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today finalized a formal definition of “habitat” for use under the Endangered Species Act.

What constitutes “critical habitat” for a species federally listed as threatened or endangered? And what exactly does “healthy” mean when it’s used on food packaging? Those are two of the more ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services on Thursday announced a new rule reversing a Trump-era definition of “habitat” as applied to endangered animals. Under the 2020 rule, the definition of ...