The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...

The news is the latest in the long-running back-and-forth over the bird's fate, as conservationists have sought support for the 30,000 lesser prairie chickens remaining in the country, a 90% decline ...

An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to ...

President Joe Biden has vetoed a Republican-sponsored bill to remove federal protections for an endangered species that have seen their populations plummet over the years: the lesser prairie ...

While the Trump administration’s request for a court to allow removing lesser prairie-chickens from the protections of the Endangered Species Act due to a technicality may seem helpful to some in the ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Texas Campaign for the Environment filed an appeal today challenging a Texas court’s decision to strip federal Endangered Species Act protection ...

A federal judge ruled the Biden administration's decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened or endangered was unlawful. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and other plaintiffs, ...

Renewable energy could hold the key to save the lesser prairie chicken from extinction in New Mexico and across the west, said conservationists. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies ...