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Researchers studying sloths, for example, warned that more protections are needed around a growing international trade in the exotic animals.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, the agency announced.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, the agency announced.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, the agency announced.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, the agency announced Monday. The service had proposed the delisting of nearly two dozen species in September 2021 due to extinction. Included in the group of animals now declared extinct are the Little Mariana fruit bat, also known as a flying fox, in Guam; two species of fish, including the San Marcos gambusia in Texas and Scioto madtom in Ohio, and eight species of mussels.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold off on its decision to declare the ivory billed woodpecker extinct but says 21 other species are extinct

PANAMA CITY -- An international wildlife conference moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated by the pet trade.

An international wildlife conference has moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of...

An international wildlife conference has moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of...

An international wildlife conference that concluded Friday in Panama moved to enact protection for over 500 species.