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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine will be banned in Hawai‘i and in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S.

A study published today in Nature Communications finds the scale of that online reptile trade is larger than previously thought, and that many reptile species are traded without protections from international regulations...To expand protection for these species, the autho

The koala is being considered for official listing as endangered after the summer’s bushfire disaster and ongoing habitat destruction on the east coast forced the government to reconsider its threat status.

Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions like farming, logging, hunting, development and global commerce have caused record losses of species on land and at sea.

US Customs and Border Protection seized the shipment of endangered Hawksbill and Green sea turtle shells at an air cargo warehouse in late November last year — one of the largest seizures of turtle shells ever in the U.S...The shell pieces from about 100 turtles were covered with a chalk-like blu

The recent seizure of the biggest shipment of illegal fins in Hong Kong history shows the taste for shark is still going strong...Fins are lucrative, fetching as much as HK$6,800 (£715) per catty (604.8g, or about 21oz), and the trade is big business.

An island’s-worth of an incredibly rare bird species have flown the coop – most missing, presumed dead. All 29 shore plovers or tūturuatu relocated to Mana Island off the coast of Porirua since February, part of an effort to save the species, have vanished.

The Manumea is Samoa’s national bird and listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (I.U.C.N).

At least five North Island iwi will be severely impacted from new restrictions to protect endangered dolphins, and there are concerns the changes will undermine promises under the Treaty of Waitangi...The new rules will see extensions to areas where set-netting and trawling is currently illegal f

A nationwide ban on drift netting is among a raft of changes to fishing methods as part of a Government plan to protect endangered dolphins.