Endangered Species Act

Federal wildlife officials protected areas where bonneted bats now live. Advocates say protections should go further due to eventual migration caused by climate change.

While an original plan was presented in 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now wants to designate approximately 1.2 million acres as critical habitat across 13 counties - this marks a 21% reduction from the previous proposal.

Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers were one of the first bird species to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Back in the 1970s, their numbers were in the low thousands. It has taken decades for the bird to recover, but it has -- to the point where now federal officials are considering downlisting it from endangered to threatened.

Once upon a time, the Red Wolf roamed the south and eastern United States, from Texas to Pennsylvania. Today, there are fewer than 40 wolves left in the…