More: Rare hellbender salamander in Western NC faces calamity from Helene's floods The proposed rule will not immediately be ...

Five years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service decided that the Eastern Hellbender would not be protected, their decision is being reversed. The Eastern Hellbender has been the official state ...

The Center has been working to secure federal protection for hellbenders for years. In 2010 we filed a scientific petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list 404 Southeast aquatic, ...

The Hellbender is a giant, aquatic salamander that has experienced severe population declines throughout its range. It is a sensitive species and there are a number of factors contributing to its ...

Since 2006, the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (CWI) has been studying and working to conserve the Eastern hellbender, a species of giant salamander native to the eastern United States.

In March 2023, they received the Budd Denneman Partners in Conservation Excellence award from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Fish and Wildlife to honor outstanding ...