Jen Newmark News Today

Bees, butterflies and other pollinators are key components of Nevada’s ecosystem, pollinating crops and native plants while serving as food for countless species.

The Nevada Department of Wildlife has added terrestrial invertebrates to its state wildlife plan for the first time, listing 66 of them as species of greatest conservation need.

You can’t think about Halloween without thinking about bats. Those creepy, blood-sucking rats with wings give us the heebie-jeebies and we don’t care who knows it. Well don’t let Jennifer Newmark, Wildlife Diversity Division chief for the Nevada Department of Wildlife hear you say that.

RENO — A newly released report tracking bird populations in the United States finds that more than half of U.S. bird species are declining, including 70 newly identified “Tipping Point” species that have lost 50%...

Once bird species are endangered, they are at greatest risk of extinction and require additional funding, protections, and decades of work to bring them back.