Landmark Agreement Moves 757 Species Toward Federal Protection

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LANDMARK AGREEMENT MOVES 757 SPECIES TOWARD FEDERAL PROTECTION

On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species by 2018. The Endangered Species Act is America’s strongest environmental law and surest way to save species threatened with extinction.

The agreement caps a decade-long effort by the Center’s scientists, attorneys and activists to safeguard 1,000 of America’s most imperiled, least protected species including the walrus, wolverine, Mexican grey wolf, fisher, New England cottontail rabbit, three species of sage grouse, scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, California golden trout, Miami blue butterfly, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, 403 southeastern river-dependent species, 42 Great basin springsnails and 32 Pacific Northwest mollusks.

The Center’s wrote scientific petitions and/or filed lawsuits to win federal protection for each of the 757 species.

Click to see the species in alphabetical order, by year of their protection decision, by taxon or via an interactive state-by-state map.

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[InvisibleTouch]

1. That's great, I'm all in favor, but...

...they also need to protect the Northern Rockies gray wolf, rather than allowing the numbers to be razed again just as they are recovering.

[vaberella]

2. I don't know much about this...but I love it. n/t

[Wilms]

3. Is the middle class a species? How can THEY get on that list? n/t