A rare tiny butterfly found only in a remote stretch of Northern Nevada will soon gain federal protections under the ...

New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with ...

RENO, Nev. — Responding to a Center for Biological Diversity petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed ...

Almost a quarter of freshwater animals, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, damselfly and fish, are threatened of going ...

Although freshwater habitats cover less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface, they support 10 percent of known animal species.

The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen ... Fish and Wildlife Service first listed the butterfly as an endangered species in 1992 noting “human-caused degradation and ...

The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen, and the Mitchell’s satyr is only found in these rare habitats that take thousands of years to develop. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...