MINNEAPOLIS — Most snare traps will be banned from Northeastern Minnesota to prevent accidental taking of the endangered and federally protected Canada lynx, following a federal judge's order Tuesday.

Minnesota will restrict strangulation snares and other traps in the northeastern part of the state to settle a federal lawsuit over Canada lynx dying in traps set for other animals. The changes are ...

A national environmental group says it will file suit to change how the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources allows trapping of animals like bobcat, fisher and marten because those traps also are ...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is failing to protect threatened lynx forest cats from trappers aiming at other species, according to a lawsuit filed in federal ...

A national environmental group sued the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on Thursday, reigniting a decade-old fight over animal trapping in northern Minnesota. The DNR is allowing ...

BOZEMAN, Mont.— Citing the risk to other imperiled animals, Earthjustice sent a notice of intent to sue the state of Montana today for implementing new laws permitting snaring of wolves and expanding ...

AUGUSTA, Maine— A federally protected Canada lynx has been killed by a trap and nearly 20 others have been caught but not killed this fall, including five or six since the federal government’s ...

A grizzly bear roams an exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington, in 2020. (Elaine Thompson/AP) (CN) — Several conservation groups filed a lawsuit in Idaho Monday seeking to block the ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission Thursday placed additional restrictions on wolf trapping aimed at reducing the number of federally protected grizzly bears and Canada lynx caught ...