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Louisiana has 21 species currently listed federally as threatened or endangered, including the Louisiana pearlshell and Louisiana pinesnake.

Take Action: Help Save These Missouri Crayfishes Missouri’s Big Creek and St. Francis River crayfishes are in trouble. A non-native crayfish is squeezing them out of their streams, which are being poisoned with dangerous heavy metals from mining. The decline of these once-common little omnivores is heartbreaking — and a harbinger of mass biodiversity loss nationwide. But you can still help save them.   The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed safeguarding the rare crawdaddies under the Endangered Species Act and protecting habitat for their survival and recovery. The agency is ac...

For Immediate Release, May 20, 2021 Contact: Congress Introduces Bill to Save Endangered Butterflies, Fish, Plants, Mollusks WASHINGTON— Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today reintroduced the Extinction Prevention Act of 2021, which would fund crucial conservation work for some of the most critically imperiled species in the United States. The legislation would establish four grant programs that each provides $5 million per year. These targeted funds would provide urgently needed on-the-ground conservation actions to ...

Speak Up for Hawai‘i’s Sharks Over the past 50 years, shark populations across the globe have plummeted due to increased fishing, and many shark species are on a path to extinction. In Hawai‘i reef shark populations have fallen by more than 90%.   To address this crisis, Hawai‘i’s state legislature passed a landmark bill to provide much-needed protections for 40 shark species. Supported by conservationists and Native Hawaiian leaders, the bill would set criminal and civil penalties for knowingly capturing or killing sharks within state waters.   Biden Reveals 30x30 Conservation Pl...

‘America the Beautiful’ Plan Debuts the Biden Administration’s Approach to Conserving the Environment and Habitat The mom-and-apple-pie effort taps into the nation’s broad concern for protecting natural places and imperiled species, and will also help fight climate change. May 7, 2021 View of Wild Goose Island in Saint Mary Lake at sunrise in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images Related Share this article The Biden administration on Thursday introduced its “America the Beautiful” plan to conserve 30 percent of the nat...