SAVING THE MIAMI BLUE BUTTERFLY After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years.

Appetite for Change: A Policy Guide to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions of U.S. Diets by 2030 Executive Summary Americans consume more meat than almost any other country, and our beef consumption is ...

HALTING THE EXTINCTION CRISIS Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the ...

Click on a point in the map below — then click on 'Show Related Records' — to get information on all the animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered found ...

Adapted to the boom-and-bust flood cycles of Southern California's rivers, the Santa Ana sucker now finds itself smack in the middle of one of the most urbanized places in North America. With its ...

NATURAL HISTORY Temminck's ground pangolin } Manis temminckii Chinese pangolin } Manis pentadactyla Sunda pangolin } Manis javanica Indian pangolin } Manis crassicaudata Philippine pangolin } Manis ...

SAVING THE BLACK-FOOTED FERRET This 2-foot-long, black-masked member of the weasel family once occurred in central grasslands and basins from southern Canada to Texas but is now one of the most ...

Our Story The Center for Biological Diversity was founded beneath the ancient ponderosa pines of New Mexico's Gila wilderness, where Kierán Suckling, Peter Galvin, and Todd Schulke met while surveying ...

CORAL CONSERVATION The world's corals and coral reef ecosystems are in crisis. In just a few decades, scientists warn, these “rainforests of the sea” and all their rich biodiversity could disappear ...

NATURAL HISTORY GRAY WOLF } Canis lupus FAMILY: Canidae DESCRIPTION: Gray wolves are the largest wild members of the dog family, with adults ranging from 40 to 175 pounds. Wolves' fur color is ...

Lawsuit Filed to Overturn Approval of Destructive Arizona Copper Mine Outstanding Arizona Waters At Risk TUCSON, Ariz. — Four conservation groups filed suit in federal court today to overturn the U.S.

12 Ways to Live More Sustainably Every day we make choices in our lives that affect the environment, the climate and other species. From what we eat to how many children we decide to have, there’s a ...