Center for Biological Diversity

The state of Nevada needs to have authority to “say no” to projects that will drive species extinct.

Attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe  previously succeeded in getting a district judge to temporarily pause construction of the project, but the ruling was later overturned. 

The practice of setting bear traps in populated areas of Lake Tahoe for the purpose of obtaining DNA from the animals for use in identifying culprits of home break-ins is futile as a management tool, traumatic for the bears, and puts cubs at risk, say some animal experts.

A rare Nevada toad at the center of a lawsuit over a geothermal energy project will be granted an emergency listing under the Endangered Species Act, federal wildlife managers said Monday.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to decide whether a rare Nevada toad should be listed as an endangered species by April 4.

Tribal leaders and a conservation group have joined forces to sue the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of a geothermal energy project.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to issue a 12-month finding of whether a decision for the protection for the Tiehm’s buckwheat is warranted by May 31.

Assembly Bill 71 would make “information related to the location of a rare plant or animal species or ecological community” confidential and exempt from the state’s public records laws.