WASHINGTON— In a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today agreed to consider granting Endangered Species Act protections to the striped newt, ...

can’t tell you where I interviewed Max Lambert, but I can tell you what we saw. It wasn’t pretty. Lambert is a research scientist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. He has been ...

The Striped Newt, an amphibian native to Florida and Georgia, was denied endangered species protection in 2018 by the Trump administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now considering ...

On Thursday, the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity submitted a legal petition for protection of the Crater Lake newt under the Endangered Species Act to the U.S. Fish and ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...

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The Mazama newts are a unique subspecies of newts. They evolved over hundreds of years in Oregon’s Crater Lake after being cut off from tributaries, and can’t be found anywhere else in the world as a ...

The struggling population of Mazama newts are finding a new home at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Oregon Zoo in Portland due to their own climate becoming increasingly challenging. The newts, ...

Fish must not be moved into a boating lake which is home to a legally-protected species of newt, a council has said. Southampton City Council said it had been told people had moved fish into the ...

Sally Gale is a rancher in rural west Marin County, California. In addition to raising beef cattle, she leads a specialized brigade — one that’s helped save thousands of amphibians. The amphibians are ...

NAVARRE As regular readers of my Grub reviews should know, I definitely have an appreciation for higher-end restaurants with inventive cuisine and stylish decor. But the more down-home local places ...