The Endangered Species Act should have recovered 300 species today. The true numbers? Only 57. Learn about the ESA's shortcomings, 50 years after becoming law, today on District of Conservation.
The Endangered Species Act has failed at recovering species.
There are only 300 wolverines in the lower-48 remaining. Why is an ESA designation being based off climate change and not population numbers?
Captain Dylan Hubbard rejoins the podcast to give listeners a positive update on the Gulf of Mexico speed vessel rule, the feds misguided proposal to list a Florida manatee strain endangered despite healthy numbers, and more.
Captain Dylan Hubbard joins District of Conservation to discuss Rice's whales and NOAA Fisheries' misguided vessel speed rule.
Gabriella speaks with David Willms, co-host of the Your Mountain podcast, about the Endangered Species Act turning 50 years old. Tune in for an ESA crash course!
The lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, were brought by nine green groups represented by the Western Environmental Law Center and another group of environmental organizations represented by Earthjustice.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service are looking to swat Green gadflies by for the first time defining the term "habitat" under the ESA.
Some 1,700 grizzlies roam the Lower 48, while another 32,000 make their home in Alaska, where they are not protected. Another 21,000 reside in Canada.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals March 17 ruled that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 2014 designation of 764,207 acres (about 115 square miles) of land in Arizona and New Mexico as “critical habitat” for the jaguar was “arbitrary and capricious” and declared FWS’s action illegal.
Despite the wolf’s rebound, environmental groups are threatening to take FWS to court over the delisting.
The rusty patched bumblebee: Environmentalists’ ticket to the greatest land grab ever.
By Gabriella Hoffman Green zealots use the Endangered Species Act to block development of private property. The case of a little toad has set them back and enhanced property rights for everyone.
"The lawsuit aimed to criminalize a wide range of ordinary and innocent acts simply because the person who committed them was unlucky enough to be near a threatened or endangered species.”
Officials have unveiled a package of reforms crafted to make the 45-year-old statute better serve both the species it is supposed to recover and landowners caught up in the law’s cumbersome regulations. Read CFACT's official comment.