
Facing extinction: The plight of New York’s tricolored bat
By Lauren Yates
Populations of hibernating bats continue to see dramatic population losses due to white-nose syndrome
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By Mike Lynch
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list monarch butterflies as threatened.
By Lauren Yates
Populations of hibernating bats continue to see dramatic population losses due to white-nose syndrome
By Mike Lynch
Rock climbing routes known to be used by nesting peregrine falcons were temporarily closed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation on April 1.
By Mike Lynch
A DNA test paid for by wildlife advocates determined an 85-pound canid killed in Central New York was a wolf, but the state's test contradicts that finding.
By Ry Rivard
Biologists fear Moriah clean-energy project threatens endangered species of bats that winter in Barton Hill's underground mines.
By Mike Lynch
The U.S. Fish and Wildife Service announced December 15 that monarch butterflies deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act, but didn't propose to list them.
Many species in the Adirondacks are in trouble. Here's a complete list.
By Phil Brown
The lake sturgeon is an odd fish. It grows fast but reaches sexual maturity late. The female matures between ages 13 and 33; the male, between 12 and 20. And the females may spawn as infrequently as every nine years. Lake sturgeon exist in the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Lake Champlain. They are…
By Phil Brown
A scientist at the Center for Biodiversity blasted as “absolutely political” a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to keep the Bicknell’s thrush off the federal list of endangered species. The Bicknell’s is a rare songbird that breeds in spruce-fir habitat at high elevations in the Adirondacks, New England, and southeastern Canada. The…