Two federal conservation initiatives were recently announced on the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, aimed at supporting the candy darter. The candy darter is a vibrant and diminutive ...

The candy darter has been on the endangered species list since 2018. The brightly colored fish lives in the watershed of the New, Gauley and Greenbrier rivers. It is usually found in fast, clear water ...

CHARLESTON, W.V.— In response to a decade of action from conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized critical habitat protection for the candy darter, a small, brightly ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The candy darter is a small, brightly colored fish found in streams across Virginia and West Virginia. But since 1932, nearly half of the 35 known types of candy darter have ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has "huge news" about a "small fish." And in case you aren't sufficiently excited about the fate of the endangered candy darter, the agency offered this all-caps ...

CHARLESTON — The candy darter, a small, brightly colored fish found in 18 small populations scattered through West Virginia’s Greenbrier, Bluestone and Gauley river watersheds, will benefit from two ...

The candy darter — a small, colorful fish known to exist only in scattered locations in the upper Greenbrier and Gauley river watersheds in West Virginia and a few New River tributaries in western ...

Some tiny Southern fish and the lumbering grizzly bear are dramatizing divergent sides of the debate over adding and removing animals from Endangered Species Act protections. Some tiny Southern fish ...

Curry is a senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity where she heads the campaign to halt the Southeast freshwater extinction crisis. As a child I spent summers wading in the creek ...