“Saving endangered species means protecting the places they live,” said Greenwald. “Critical habitat will let these two small fish survive, yes, but it’ll also benefit the people of the Southwest, who will still have the chance to see living rivers…
Endangered Species Act
Japanese Whaler’s Injunction Against Sea Shepherd Denied in U.S. District Court
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
02-20-2012
The court also expressed displeasure with the Japanese whalers for filing an injunction against Sea Shepherd while appearing to be themselves in violation of an injunction issued by the Australian Federal Court. This injunction prohibits the whalers from hunting whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary…
Counties could require landowners to poison prairie dogs. Counties would also have the authority to enter private land without permission to search for and poison prairie dogs, and then charge the landowner for the costs of extermination…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has listed two freshwater mussels—the rayed bean and the snuffbox—as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The two mussels are found in river systems…
Delaware River Atlantic Sturgeon Get Protection under Endangered Species Act
Delaware Riverkeeper
02-01-2012
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced Jan. 31 that it will list the Atlantic sturgeon in the Delaware River as an endangered species under the federal Endangered Species Act, because the species…
The Obama administration announced Jan. 31 that it would not increase the $1.35 monthly fee charged for each cow and calf the livestock industry grazes on western public land. The fee remains at its lowest…
The Obama government is now accepting comments on a draft policy that would sharply limit the number of species given protection under the Endangered Species Act. The policy in question is a Bush-era…
The dunes sagebrush lizard, a small, rare lizard that lives only in Texas and New Mexico, was named one of 10 U.S. species most urgently threatened by fossil fuel development in a report released Jan. 19 by…
biodiversity
Help Close a Deadly Loophole to Protect Chimpanzees
Center for Biological Diversity
01-16-2012
Speak up today to protect chimpanzees who can’t defend themselves. The worldwide population of wild chimpanzees has fallen by nearly 70 percent in the past 30 years. Wild chimpanzees…
The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico killed wildlife, destroyed coastlines and damaged local economies. Despite pleasant weather and calm waters, cleanup still took months and…
biodiversity
Endangered Species Act Celebrates 38th Birthday—Survival of Two Snakes Depends on It
Center for Biological Diversity
12-29-2011
Arizona’s narrow-headed garter snake is rapidly disappearing and needs Endangered Species Act protection in order to avoid extinction, according to a status report submitted Dec. 28 by the Center for…
biodiversity
Video Highlights Consequences of Illegal Wildlife Trade for Military Personnel
Wildlife Conservation Society
12-23-2011
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced on Dec. 22 the release of Caught in the Crosshairs: Combating the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Iraq and Afghanistan—a new video aimed at…
More than 5,000 public comments were sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week opposing the proposed Flaming Gorge Pipeline, which would pump more than 250,000 acre-feet of water…
biodiversity
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Strips Great Lakes Wolves of Protection
Center for Biological Diversity
12-22-2011
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a rule Dec. 21 prematurely removing Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in the Great Lakes region. But the agency’s rule retains protections for…
The Flaming Gorge pipeline would be far too expensive and would harm the Green River’s world-class recreation and tourism economies, businesses and river advocates said Dec. 19…
A coalition of 10 conservation groups from Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Arizona—the Colorado River Protection Coalition—moved to intervene in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
With Republicans Bashing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 2012 Could Be a Turning Point for Environmental Regulation. House Republicans and Republican presidential candidates have…
biodiversity
Tell Congress to Keep Anti-Wildlife Attacks off Funding Bills
Endangered Species Coalition
12-08-2011
Congressional Republicans have attached a dizzying myriad of anti-environment and anti-wildlife provisions to year-end spending legislation. These last minute additions do not affect overall spending…
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Energy Company Seeks Endangered Species Act Exemption
Endangered Species Coalition
12-01-2011
The oil and gas industry seems to think it deserves to have its own set of rules. We see far too many instances of projects being fast-tracked and approved without consideration of impacts on the…
biodiversity
Federal Protection Will Be Considered for Hammerhead Sharks
Friends of Animals
11-30-2011
The National Marine Fisheries Service announced a positive preliminary finding on a petition WildEarth Guardians and Friends of Animals submitted to list scalloped hammerhead sharks as…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed to remove wolves in Wyoming from the endangered species list. This deadly proposal would allow unlimited, shoot-on-sight killing of wolves in nearly 90 percent of the state…
biodiversity
Court Upholds Endangered Status for Grizzlies
Natural Resources Defense Council
11-23-2011
Grizzly bears living in the Yellowstone region won a reprieve Nov. 22 from efforts to remove federal endangered species protections from the population. A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously agreed…
biodiversity
Federal Judge Throws out Lawsuit Challenging Endangered Species Listing
Alaska Conservation Voters
11-22-2011
For the second time in less than six months, a federal judge on Nov. 21 threw out a lawsuit by the Gov. Sean Parnell administration challenging an endangered species listing, this time involving Cook Inlet’s beluga whales…
The country is in the midst of an unprecedented oil and gas rush—brought on by a toxic and controversial technology known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” And if polluting our air…
Over the last month, a bill that would waive the Wilderness Act in the name of border security has gained ground. The National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (H.R. 1505) was reported to…
biodiversity
List of Candidates for Endangered Species Act Released
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
10-25-2011
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its Candidate Notice of Review Oct. 25, a yearly appraisal of the current status of plants and animals considered candidates…
