A reptile researcher explains why diverse native vegetation, healthy soils and insect-rich food webs are essential for horned ...

The dispute follows a settlement agreement that would send the species listing back to federal regulators for further review.

On May 20, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a final rule listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The listing does not include a designation ...

A lizard native to southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin was afforded the highest level of federal protections aimed at preventing its extinction, triggering concerns that landowners and industries in ...

This is a Dunes Sagebrush lizard. The Trump administration wants to put greater weight on the economic benefits of development when deciding if land or water should be protected for imperiled species.

About 100 miles west of Austin in Mason County, there are some new arrivals: baby horned lizards, known to generations of ...

The Trump administration agreed to strip endangered species protection from a lizard whose habitat overlapped the largest oil ...

On May 20, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a final rule listing the dunes sagebrush lizard (“DSL”) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). 1 The change in the DSL ...

Agreements between landowners in the Permian Basin region and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could prevent the dunes sagebrush lizard from being listed for federal protection under the Endangered ...

The Texas horned lizard has been an important part of Texas’s history and culture for centuries. Once a staple in habitats ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – Federal wildlife managers are considering offering permits to landowners in the Permian Basin that environmentalists say could further compromise habitat for a rare lizard found ...