U.S. Loses Ruling on Gray Wolves
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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration violated the Endangered Species Act when it relaxed protections on many of the nation's gray wolves.
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A Bayonne lawmaker is still hoping to save black bears in New Jersey from being shot by hunters, despite a court ruling issued yesterday that prevents the state&#39;s Department of Environmental
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An animal rights group failed to persuade a judge Thursday to immediately suspend Alaska's aerial wolf control program, which it likened to a slaughter.
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A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.
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Sept. 23, 2004 - Cougars, wolves, lions and other predators inflict relatively few losses on livestock and farmers gain only a temporary boost if these marauders are culled, the British weekly New Scientist announced Wednesday.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 8--A Boise County infant was mauled by a wolf-dog hybrid Tuesday before the boy's father shot and killed the dog, the Boise County Sheriff's Office said.
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In a victory for environmentalists, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration cannot change the standards commercial fisheries must meet before the tuna they catch can carry the "dolphin-safe" label.
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The gray wolves of the West are about to step out onto the high wire of life in the real world, when their status as endangered animals formally comes to an end early this year.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 4--North Dakota doesn't have a resident gray wolf population, but the Game and Fish Department is developing an action plan to deal with the species after it's removed from federally protected status in the eastern two-thirds of the state.
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The head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday his agency will start removing federal protections from gray wolves in Montana and Idaho by January, regardless of whether Wyoming has submitted an acceptable plan to manage its own wolves by then.
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Federal health experts declared a small victory against a fatal and untreatable virus on Friday, saying canine rabies has disappeared from the United States.
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Supporters of fox hunting in England and Wales lost the first round of an ambitious legal battle against a ban on the sport due to take effect next month.
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By BEN NEARY  CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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By Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer  Imagine hunting bald eagles before they were listed as endangered in 1967, or gray wolves before their numbers vanished from the landscape here.
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By AP Wire Service  CHEYENNE, Wyo.  -- Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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A Bush administration decision to eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
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MISSOULA, Mont. - The federal government broke the law by not addressing flaws in a study it relied on in allowing maintenance of roads in grizzly bear habitat in parts of Montana, Idaho and Washington, a judge ruled Wednesday.  The U.S.