Endangered Species Act Lauded as Bald Eagle Soars off List
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NEW YORK, Jun 28 (OneWorld) - As federal authorities declared today that the bald eagle is no longer on the list of threatened species, environmental activists and conservation groups across the United States expressed joy with the fruition of efforts to save the national symbol from extinction.
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By The Associated Press  A timeline tracking the bald eagle's history, from its brush with extinction to its recovery.
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Bald eagles, whose numbers dwindled in the 1960s, are once again flourishing, the interior secretary said Thursday.
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The bald eagle is officially about to become a "conservation success story" for the U.S. government, which has worked for more than three decades to help the national symbol recover from habitat destruction, illegal shooting and contamination of its food source.
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A campaign to make the golden eagle Scotland's first national bird is rejected by MSPs.
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The northern spotted owl, the bird at the center of the Pacific Northwest logging wars, will stay on the threatened species list, the government said Thursday.
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A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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A conservation group filed a formal petition Wednesday seeking to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - In the three decades that there&#39;s been an Endangered Species Act, a single principle has reigned supreme: If a critter is heading toward extinction, protect
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THE American bald eagle has had federal protection in one manner or another since 1940. Still, that did not stop their numbers from dropping to 413 nesting pairs by 1963 in the Lower 48 states.   States and the federal government began doing something about the bald eagle.
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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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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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The bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species today during a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial, as officials and environmentalists celebrated the national symbol's historic recovery.
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A bird at the center of a controversy that impacts the nation&#39;s multibillion-dollar energy industry should not be included on the endangered species list, a panel of federal wildlife officials has concluded.
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The bald eagle  left the list of threatened and endangered species just in time for Independence Day last week, but will things look as good for another symbolic creature come Easter?
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The number of woodlarks, one of England's most critically endangered birds, is rising, the RSPB says.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 24--WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., is the co-sponsor of a bill to reform the Endangered Species Act requiring that each listing be supported by sound science and need, and be accompanied by a recovery plan that will lead to de-listing.