Is There A New Paradigm For ESA Species Listings?

According to really Taylor Jones from the originial and WildEarth Guardians, this evaluation provided by the service is arguable in conjunction to the responsibilities of neighborhood and fed entities that in fact promissed to defend the tortoise. Both have disappeared from more than half of the streams where they were once found. In return, homebuilders would get assurances that they wouldn’t be hit with additional conservation requirements for the tortoise later, he said. The snake’s threatened status allows the Service to include exemptions permitted under Section 4(d) of the ESA allowing certain management activities to continue to occur with protection from the loss, injury or harassment of black pinesnakes in this case. A copy also can be obtained by contacting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 6578 Dogwood View Parkway, Suite A, Jackson, Mississippi, 39213; phone: 601-321-1121. The public can comment on a list of recommendations through December. 8. Unnecessary listings make acres of Trust land become less valuable for investment as they are burdened with a federal regulatory nexus resulting in less money flowing into education coffers. Listing a species may be easy, but delisting is extremely hard.

Thanks to the help of numerous protection efforts conducted by government agencies to protect the Sonoran desert tortoise, the reptile is no longer at risk for extinction and it is no longer considered as a candidate for Endangered Species Act protection.

While a few like Steve Trussell, executive director of the Arizona Rock Products Association, an organization that represents aggregate materials in the state, applauded the decision. Many are pending, others have been undergoing research for decades, and several are asked to be urgently placed under federal protection.

Last Friday I spoke at the Take Back Our Water rally in Mendota, California.

One of the primary reasons for the failure of the program is that farmers, ranchers, and other landowners were not involved in the creation of the program and are often penalized for participating in it. When it comes to protecting species and preserving their habitat, it is the people on the land who are on the front lines of conservation.

Climate change, drought and nonnative invasive species of grass were found to not pose enough of a threat to warrant federal protection, Spangle said.

As of late, there around 470,000 to 970,000 adult desert tortoises in Mexico and the United States. Many of these rare species find themselves even further at risk due to their limited genetic diversity and extremely small distributions.

“As with all wildlife species in Arizona, conserving the Sonoran desert tortoise has been a priority for the Arizona Game and Fish Department and Commission. Once again as the most trusted, respected and credible source for wildlife conservation and information, it is the state wildlife agency’s on-the-ground wildlife management expertise and science-driven conservation projects that have compelled a no listing decision”.