WASHINGTON— A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect northern long-eared bats as threatened rather than endangered under the Endangered Species ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In a reversal of a previous “threatened” listing that exempted destruction of the northern long-eared bat’s habitat from protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a ...

A rare bat sighted in Scioto County leads McCormac to wonder about the endangered species and how it came to be that way.

Pennsylvania is home to an abundance of unique and diverse species spread across the state, and those include 23 that are recognized as endangered by the Commonwealth. Among these animals facing ...

Federal officials Tuesday proposed designating the Northern long-eared bat, once common but ravaged by a deadly fungus, as an endangered species. The population has plummeted since colonies ...

“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today it is protecting the northern long-eared bat as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), primarily due to the threat posed by ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — This week, a creature that is often feared is instead being celebrated internationally as various agencies and organizations work to show the important role of bats in ...

A number of bills have been introduced in the 114 th Congress that would undermine animal welfare; many of them take aim directly at endangered species (such as wolves), or at the Endangered Species ...

The Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests in western North Carolina provide habitat for four critically endangered bats: the ...

Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - A coalition of conservation groups is suing the U.S. Forest Service, accusing the service of failing to protect endangered bats in a new forest plan for the ...

The common name of this bat is an honor of the Reverend John Henry Keen who, in 1894, obtained the first specimen from which the species was described. Keen’s myotis is brown in color, darker above ...