Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition ...

The definition of "habitat" was a point of contention during a legal battle over protections for the dusky gopher frog. John Tupy/Fish and Wildlife Service ...

As it is now written, the ESA includes a definition of “critical habitat,” which area areas designated by the wildlife agencies to aid in threatened or endangered species conservation.

A December 2020 final rule defining “habitat” could have important consequences for future designations of lands and waters as “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA ...

A definition of “habitat” published in December 2020, shortly before Trump left office, restricted areas the government could identify as critical for particular wildlife.

Restoring the Trump habitat definition, the White House said, would “severely limit” federal agencies’ ability to help troubled species survive and recover.

The Trump administration on Tuesday narrowed habitat protections for endangered species, finalizing its second major rollback to the Endangered Species Act.The latest rule narrows the definition of… ...