The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today determined the pygmy owl is threatened throughout southern Arizona and Texas, and the Mexican states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco and Chihuahua ...

As Arizona’s Family reported, one of the threatened species is the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, whose climate would reportedly be threatened as part of the highway’s construction “The construction of ...

The argument was that pygmy owls exist in Mexico and thus could be allowed to go extinct in the United States (though the Service's own biologists opposed the owl's delisting). In 2007 the Center ...

The Arizona Department of Transportation confirmed ... including the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl. The small brown desert owls were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act ...

The Arizona Department of Transportation confirmed in a written statement that the agency ... was the project’s failure to consider the harm to threatened and endangered species, including the cactus ...