Which endangered animal calls your state home?

Find out what we’re doing to help. 

Today we’re excited to launch an interactive map where you can learn about efforts to protect your state’s wildlife in need. The Service developed the map to share stories of success and partnership built across America under the Endangered Species Act. 

The new, web-based interactive map has information about endangered species success
in every state. Find it at http://www.fws.gov/endangered.

Our new website: A tool for you!

Here at Ecological Services, we’ve decided to follow in Mother Nature’s footsteps. As summer dawns upon us, we’re launching our new website.

We hope this re-designed website will reinvigorate the online tools offered by ES. We’ve outgrown our foundational site and have been in need of a more colorful, more resourceful website. We want visitors to easily navigate our website, find the information they’re looking for, check out some of the interesting and educational elements, and most of all, visit us again.

So, what will you find in our new site, and how will you find it?

Happy Endangered Species Day!

Swamp pink, a beautiful member of the lily
family, has been listed under the ESA since
1988. It occurs in headwater streams
and mountain bogs from New Jersey to
Georgia. Credit: Gene Nieminen/USFWS

More than five years ago, the U.S. Senate decided that Mother Nature's less fortunate children deserved a holiday--an opportunity for us to remember the important roles that different and unique animals and plants play in the health and future of our nation. 

In the Northeast, more than 90 types of wildlife benefit from the protections under the Endangered Species Act, from the Appalachian monkeyface mussel and the roseate tern to the Maryland darter and the Chittenango ovate amber snail. 

Sure, no one's happy that almost one hundred of our plants and animals have faced or are threatened with extinction. But today we celebrate the existence of the Endangered Species Act, the landmark conservation law that we credit with the recovery of the bald eagle, brown pelican, American alligator and Maguire daisy. The ESA is a critical safety net for America's native, fish wildlife and plants, and we can only imagine the plight of wildlife without its protection.