Congress has begun nullifying resource management plans that were developed and implemented to guide long-term stewardship of federal lands. Plans cooperatively developed by the federal Bureau of Land Management in Montana, North Dakota, and Alaska -- in consultation with scientists, conservation groups, indigenous peoples, industry, and other users of these tracts of federal lands -- are the first on the chopping block. These Resource Management Plans (RMPs) provide stabil

The Trump administration seeks to weaken conservation by rescinding a rule that governs public land use. The Conservation and Landscape...

North American endangered species This proposal "threatens a half-century of progress in protecting and restoring endangered species," is...

Panama’s president, Laurentino Cortizo, signed into law far-reaching protections for the natural world last week. The legislation, which...