WASHINGTON— A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect northern long-eared bats as threatened rather than endangered under the Endangered Species ...
In a reversal of a previous “threatened” listing that exempted destruction of the northern long-eared bat’s habitat from protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a proposal to list ...
Pennsylvania is home to an abundance of unique and diverse species spread across the state, and those include 23 that are recognized as endangered by the Commonwealth. Among these animals facing ...
Federal officials Tuesday proposed designating the Northern long-eared bat, once common but ravaged by a deadly fungus, as an endangered species. The population has plummeted since colonies ...
A coalition of conservation groups is suing the U.S. Forest Service, accusing the service of failing to protect endangered ...
The fight, however, continues. One particularly ominous action some members of the House and Senate have taken is to persuade the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) not to list the northern ...
proposal to give endangered species protection to the once-common northern long-eared bat. In proposing the listing, USFWS identified WNS as the “predominant threat” to northern long-eared bats, ...
In 2023, the Northern Long-Eared Bat (NLEB) was uplisted to endangered status. The FWS proposed to list the Tricolored Bat (TCB) as endangered in 2022, with a target date of September 2024 to ...
The US Forest Service approved a new Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest plan without considering how extensive logging will effect endangered bats, conservation groups said in a federal complaint.
The ESA says “federal departments and agencies shall seek to conserve endangered species and ... the extent the habitats for the northern long-eared bat, Indiana bat, Virginia big-eared bat ...
The Forest Service also removed several key measures from its biological assessment that would have strengthened protections for endangered bats. The northern long-eared bat, Indiana bat ...
Bat enthusiasts around the world celebrated International Bat Appreciation Day on Wednesday. The Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) ...