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A monarch butterfly pauses in a garden, July 11, 2021, in Marple Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Officials propose ‘threatened’ status for monarch butterflies under Endangered Species Act

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Two giraffes roam around Nairobi National Park, on the outskirts of Nairobi, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi National Park located 7-km-away from the city and has wide open grass plains with a backdrop of the city scrapers, and hosts a wide variety of wildlife including the endangered black rhino, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Officials propose giving giraffes endangered species protection

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Elon Musk crushed by Federal agencies illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Biden-Harris bureaucracy nags Musk

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - A sign against the proposed transmission line by American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative, leans against a grain wagon along Highway 18-151 near Ridgeway, Wis., Dec. 8, 2018. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Utilities complete transmission line linking Iowa and Wisconsin

Associated Press

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, in Corvallis, Ore. U.S. wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls in coming decades as part of a controversial plan to help spotted owl populations. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

To save spotted owls, U.S. officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

This Feb. 2021, file photo released by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a protected gray wolf (OR-93), seen near Yosemite, Calif., shared by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife. Biden on Thursday finalized rules for protecting imperiled species that reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

This image provided by the US Attorney for the District of Montana from a court document shows golden eagle feet that law enforcement officers recovered from the vehicle of a Washington state man charged with federal wildlife trafficking violations. The defendant is scheduled to plead guilty on March 20, 2024 in Missoula, Mont. in what prosecutors say was an illegal scheme to shoot eagles and sell their parts on the black market. (Courtesy of the US Attorney for the District of Montana via AP)

Man to plead guilty in eagle ‘killing spree’ on reservation to sell feathers on black market

Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2024 image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Aiden Caruso, a Mexican wolf technician with the agency, carries a sedated wolf during an annual survey of the endangered species near Beaverhead, N.M. The wolves are released after undergoing health checks by wildlife managers. (Aislinn Maestas/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

Mexican gray wolves boost their numbers, but a lack of genetic diversity remains a threat

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

In this February 2021, photo released by California Department of Fish and Wildlife, shows a gray wolf (OR-93) near Yosemite, Calif. Federal wildlife officials announced Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, that they have rejected requests from conservation groups to restore protections for gray wolves across portions of six western states, saying the population in those states is strong. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)

U.S Fish and Wildlife Service proposes plan for gray wolves, no longer in danger of extinction

By Matthew Brown and Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Invasive Carp Field Lead Kayla Stampfle inspects the components of a telemetry receiver that tracks tagged invasive carp in the Mississippi River near La Crosse, Wis. on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. The solar-powered receiver can transmit real-time notifications of the movements of tagged invasive carp. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Sept. 24, 2021. The federal government has been asked to consider at least two videos made in recent years as evidence that ivory-billed woodpeckers may still exist. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in July 2022, that it was looking for video or photos that all experts could agree showed the bird. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Feds remove 21 now-extinct species from endangered list

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - A female red wolf emerges from her den sheltering newborn pups at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C., on May 13, 2019. On Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, the U.S. government agreed to settle a lawsuit with conservation groups and commit to releasing more endangered red wolves into the wilds of North Carolina. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

U.S. commits to releasing more endangered red wolves into the wild, settling lawsuit

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 8, 2003, file photo, a northern spotted owl sits on a tree branch in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates protections for species that are newly classified as threatened. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Biden administration moves to restore endangered species protections dropped by Trump

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

A grizzly bear roams near Beaver Lake on July 6, 2011, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. A federal appeals court ruled Thursday, May 25, 2023, that federal wildlife and forest officials must consider limits on killing female grizzly bears to protect livestock in a vast area of the Wind River Range in western Wyoming. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Environmental groups prevail on limit to grizzly bear deaths in Wyoming cattle grazing area

By Mead Gruver - Associated Press

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 11, 2022. A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, April 26, 2023, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

SpaceX rocket launch causes massive fire at state park

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times