How redefining one word strips the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down ...

‘Death sentence’: Trump administration to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining

Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct ...
Phys.org

Habitat loss and over-exploitation are leading to a decline in salmon populations

One-quarter of freshwater animals are now threatened with extinction, and population declines in fresh waters outpace those in marine and terrestrial systems. Reports of salmonid fish decline are ...
E&E

Feds overturn Trump-era endangered species ‘habitat’ definition

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...
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‘Many species will go extinct’: Feds’ ESA rule threatens habitat

“This is war on the forests and rivers of the West,” Pete Frost, attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center in Eugene, ...
JD Supra

Endangered Species Act: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Finalizes Rule to Rescind Definition for the Term "Habitat"

On Friday, June 24, 2022, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (the Service) finalized a rule rescinding the regulatory definition of “habitat,” as the term was used in the Endangered Species Act (the Act ...
Mongabay

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Fishing cats have lost vast swathes of their former range in Thailand, where decades of wetland conversion to fish farms, shrimp ponds and plantations have decimated their numbers. With habitats ...
Phys.org

How redefining just one word could strip the Endangered Species Act's ability to protect vital habitat

It wouldn't make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...
The Conversation

Habitat loss and over‑exploitation are leading to a decline in salmon populations

One-quarter of freshwater animals are now threatened with extinction, and population declines in fresh waters outpace those in marine and terrestrial systems. Reports of salmonid fish decline are ...