Sourced public facts about wildlife and the laws that protect it.
Explore how animals, habitats, and conservation laws connect across official U.S. government notices—or switch to the Near Me map to see what is happening in your state and how you can help.
Explore the Wildlife & Groups Network
Every animal and plant in our public records is connected to its biological group, the habitats where it lives, the laws that protect it, and related wildlife. Click any group hub or animal node to explore.
What Is Happening in My Locality? How Can I Help?
Select your U.S. state on the map below (or choose a region) to see which local animals, rivers, and habitats appear in recent federal conservation rules—and how everyday citizens can participate.
How Can I Help? 4 Real Ways Citizens Shape Wildlife Protection
Read Full Citizen Action Guide →Comment on Open Rules
Under federal law (5 U.S.C. § 553), agencies must read and answer substantive public comments before finalizing species rules. Every notice on this site links directly to its official federalregister.gov docket.
Contribute Local Sightings to 90-Day Reviews
6 notices in our dataset are 90-Day Citizen Petition Reviews (such as Coastal Chinook Salmon and Atlantic Horseshoe Crab), where agencies ask residents and naturalists for local range and habitat data.
Respect Local Critical Habitat & Closures
Notices designate critical rivers and seasonal closures—from the Suwannee River Basin in FL/GA to public lands in Deschutes & Jefferson Counties, OR—so imperiled wildlife can breed and recover.
Join Public CITES Treaty Hearings
Before global wildlife trade summits (CITES CoP20), the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service holds public meetings and invites citizen recommendations on international species protections.
Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis)
What Happened: US establishes threatened protections and a 4(d) rule for the Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle →
Biodiversity & Evidence Breakdown
Recent Wildlife Protection Actions
Browse all 0 notices →More Ways to Explore
World Regulatory Map
Interactive global map showing wildlife notice density and documented species ranges across nations.
Animal & Plant Groups
Browse 92 wildlife species with common names across mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, and plants.
Notice Timeline
Inspect monthly publishing patterns and chronological plain-language notice summaries.
Plain-Language Guides
Understand the Lacey Act, Endangered Species Act, CITES trade controls, and evidence honesty.
How This Site Works (In Plain English)
1. Clear Evidence Labels
We always tell you whether a government notice states a fact directly or simply mentions two things in the same document:
STATED (the notice says this directly)
INFERRED (appears in the same notice; may not state a direct link)
Every single fact links straight back to the official government notice so you can check it yourself.
2. Honest Coverage Notes
In this early prototype, some notices were read from their summary (title and abstract) and others from their opening pages (~3,500 characters). Every notice page clearly states how much of the document was read.
3. Meaningful Wildlife Connections
In our interactive graph, animals are linked when they share a specific habitat (like a state, river basin, or island) or appear together in a focused conservation rule—never lumped together just because they both occur somewhere in the United States.