To protect depleted populations of Atlantic herring -- a vital food source for larger fish, whales and other marine life -- Federal authorities consider banning large trawl fishing boats from the inshore Gulf of Maine during summer spawning months.
Investigators claim smugglers have shipped endangered chimpanzees and gorillas from Africa to buyers in the Middle East. They blame governments, airlines and international law enforcement for failing to protect Africa's great apes.
Sportsmen, native communities and conservationists unite in opposing a Canadian company's plan for a huge gold and copper mine in a watershed criticcal for spawning salmon.
In northwestern Canada, conservationists and native tribes question energy companies' plans to build an 800-mile gas pipeline to fuel extraction of oil from tar sands in Alberta.
Three years after an apparent sighting in an Arkansas swamp of a bird believed extinct for decades, hopeful scientists and volunteers are still searching for it.
In the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, northern spotted owls face an aggressive competitor and new plans to remove protection for their habitat.
U.S. wildlife authorities have reintroduced a rare sub-species of gray wolf in Arizona and New Mexico, but cattle interests, political pressures and poachers have all but doomed the recovery program.
This is the first of three reports on the status and future of iconic wildlife in the American West. A decade after re-introduction, more than 1,000 wolves now roam the northern Rockies.
In Florida, a rescue center rehabilitates bald eagles and other raptors that are frequently injured by motor vehicles and power lines in fast-developing suburbs.
