US officials seek limits on "habitat" for imperiled species
Source: Associated Press
Matthew Brown, Associated Press
Updated 12:02 pm CDT, Friday, July 31, 2020
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as habitat for imperiled plants and animals potentially excluding areas that species could use in the future.
The proposal to be announced Friday and obtained in advance by The Associated Press would for the first time define habitat for purposes of enforcing the Endangered Species Act, the landmark law that has undergirded species protections efforts in the U.S. since 1973.
It has broad implications for how lands are managed and how far the government has to go to protect plants and animals that could be sliding toward extinction.
Legal observers said the two-sentence definition, as well as an alternative definition that officials invited comment on, would limit what areas officials can designate as critical to a species' survival.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/US-officials-seek-limits-on-habitat-for-15449293.php
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)Bayard
(21,805 posts)trump doing as much damage as possible before he's kicked out.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)That is a species that should go extinct.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)2naSalit
(86,054 posts)They have been trying to kill the Endangered Species Act for decades and this is an attempt at a backdoor gutting of it.
There are three mandates in the ESA and one of them is Critical Habitat; where a species can thrive without manipulation from us. Many attempts at killing this part of the ESA have been going on for years, in fact Mr Pompousass has been an enemy of the Act and the environment for decades, it's where I first heard of that fuckwad.