The Mississippi Aquarium celebrated a first in January, with the birth of two critically endangered penguin chicks.

The Mississippi Aquarium crew celebrated the hatch of their first penguin chicks at the aquarium. African Penguin Chick 1 hatched to penguin parents, Pumpkin and Blue, on January 20. On January 25, ...

African penguins are considered one of the most endangered penguin species and are in urgent need of conservation intervention.

Penguin Awareness Day was celebrated in more ways than one at Mississippi Aquarium this year with the hatch of their very ...

The turtles are found in Mississippi, Louisiana ... a timely initial finding on the Center’s 2010 petition to protect the turtles under the Endangered Species Act. “Federal protection for the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes a critical habitat zone to protect endangered freshwater ... including a portion of the Mississippi River from the Quad-Cities to Keokuk.

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides a framework to protect and recover species at risk of extinction, both domestically and abroad. Enacted in 1973, it has been credited with saving 99 percent ...

Hill “gave teeth” to the new Endangered Species Act and “helped to shape ... was wading through the creeks near the Mississippi-Alabama border in 2015 and thought he saw a snail darter ...