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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 01:15 PM Jul 2020

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

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US officials seek limits on "habitat" for imperiled species (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2020 OP
When Greed Over People extinguishes a species it is forever. Damaging an ecosystem is almost as long Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #1
Expect a lot more of this kind of thing Bayard Jul 2020 #2
We should limit the habitat for the Reptilian Party. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #3
Yes Solly Mack Jul 2020 #4
This shit pisses me off to no end. 2naSalit Jul 2020 #5
Greed Over Planet. sakabatou Jul 2020 #6

Bayard

(21,805 posts)
2. Expect a lot more of this kind of thing
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 02:06 PM
Jul 2020

trump doing as much damage as possible before he's kicked out.

2naSalit

(86,054 posts)
5. This shit pisses me off to no end.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 04:31 PM
Jul 2020

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.

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