On December 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law. In celebrating the law's enactment, Nixon proclaimed that the law would "provide[] the Federal ...

The Endangered Species Act was enacted on Dec. 28, 1973, to establish protections for fish, wildlife and plants that are considered to be threatened or endangered.

The Endangered Species Act enters its 51st year with many successes -- saving the whooping crane, bald eagle and gray wolf from extinction, to name a few. But its next chapter is threatened by a ...

America's national bird is doing great. The government's proposed cuts to nature protections could put that at risk.

Bald eagles once neared extinction in Maryland due to DDT. Now, thanks to conservation efforts, their population has soared ...

The Endangered Species Act (ESA), often criticized for its perceived economic drawbacks, has a more nuanced and positive impact on property markets than previously thought, a new study has ...

Recent political movements have regrettably made ESA advocates worry that the next endangered “species” may be the 1973 act itself. Despite the ESA’s acknowledged success in saving more than ...

Recovering animals that are nearing extinction, like the black-footed ferret, was the whole point of the 1973 Endangered Species Act but some lawmakers say it needs to be reformed.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species Act.

Since it was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon near the end of 1973 the Endangered Species Act served as the most powerful defense against natural resource exploitation that harmed ...

A marine biologist captured video of the moment a bowhead whale cracked through a layer of ice in West Greenland to take a ...

Wilson considered the Endangered Species Act of 1973 the most important piece of conservation legislation in our nation’s history. I know what that means. I know because I lived it.