One of the great wildlife recovery stories in United States’ history began in the mid-1980s when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW) and other agencies began the Aleutian Cackling Goose recovery program. Then listed as endangered, the Aleutian Goose population had declined to fewer than 700 individuals.

Concerns are mounting when it comes to job security at a Citrus County wildlife refuge.

Biologist Bryn Webber was passionate about her work to save native Hawaiian birds that are under attack by disease-spreading mosquitoes, predators and habitat loss — and in danger of going extinct — at the Kauaʻi National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

Career employees told HCN they were unsettled by the termination email sent by HR, which cited ‘performance issues.’

The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce are impacting the only national refuge created specifically for threatened manatees.

Mackenzie Kleinpeter logged into work Friday, thinking her job as a wildlife biologist and oil and gas specialist at the Southwest Louisiana National Wildlife Refuges Complex was safe from recent federal layoffs.

A “wholesale decimation of expertise” threatens the natural resources we all rely on, a former top government official tells Vox.