The battle over a proposed convention center expansion in deep South Texas is intensifying, with former elected officials now ...

McALLEN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The federal government has established a recovery plan for the jaguarundi, nearly four decades since the small wildcat was listed as an endangered species and nearly ...

The jaguarundi, bigger than an average housecat, had much of its thorn scrub habitat cleared for agriculture and development along the border. The jaguarundi was listed as an endangered species in ...

The thorn scrub that remains is isolated in small, distant pockets not large enough to sustain large ocelot populations.

Ocelots require dense thorn scrub environments to thrive, according to East Foundation. A conservation facility will be constructed in Kingsville to breed and raise ocelots, according to TPWD ...

While it is commonly observed throughout the Big Country, Edwards Plateau, Trans-Pecos and South Texas thorn-scrub, it barely occurs in the central portions of the Panhandle, roughly ranging from ...