WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will protect the wolverine population in the lower 48 states as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — a decision that ...

Image by Peter Mather. A wolverine departs successfully fitted with a radio collar. In March 2016, I cracked open the lid of a stout wooden box on Alaska's North Slope and was met with a growl.

Long persecuted alongside other large carnivores, the wolverine ( Gulo gulo) probably began its recovery in Norway and Sweden half a century ago, after both countries moved to protect the animal. That ...

Back in 2008 the Center and allies sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for deciding not to protect the wolverine and letting political considerations — like the implications of protecting another ...