NICEVILLE — A major victory was declared Tuesday in the long upstream battle of the Okaloosa darter, as the little fish native only to Okaloosa and Walton counties was declared no longer threatened by ...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) submitted to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) pursuant to Section 4(b) of ...

Iowa is one of three states that do not have an official state fish. A northwest Iowa legislator’s proposal could change that. State Representative John Wills of Spirit Lake said the nomination came ...

CHARLESTON, W.V.— In response to a decade of action from conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized critical habitat protection for the candy darter, a small, brightly ...

The snail darter, a tiny fish that notoriously blocked a federal dam project in Tennessee decades ago, should no longer be on the endangered species list, federal officials announced on Tuesday.

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE — In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This law ensures that animal and plant species are protected under federal law, and that the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated just over 175 river miles, including 9,924 acres, as protected critical habitat for the threatened trispot darter in Alabama, ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — It looks like a fish you would find in the tropics, but the Candy Darter can only be found in the Appalachian Mountains. This beautiful fish still enjoys the ...

The candy darter has been on the endangered species list since 2018. The brightly colored fish lives in the watershed of the New, Gauley and Greenbrier rivers. It is usually found in fast, clear water ...

KODAK, Tenn. (WATE) — A fish found in East Tennessee has become the first fish species in the eastern United States to be delisted from the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife due to ...

The snail darter, a small fish native to the Southeast whose endangered status caused a legal battle in the 1970s, is no longer imperiled, the Department of the Interior announced Tuesday. The snail ...

More than 500 river miles have been designated critical habitat for a threatened fish species once found in Louisiana and Mississippi but now known only in part of its historic Mississippi range. The ...