Legal Planet
APRIL 24, 2025
Following up on my prior post about the proposed changes to the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations that protect against habitat modification, what might California do to protect the species within its border?
Legal Planet
JANUARY 28, 2025
This article in the NY Times covers a recent scientific article that concludes that the snail darter, a fish species in the Tennessee River basin that was previously listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), is not a species after all. Why is this the topic for a NY Times article?
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Legal Planet
JUNE 28, 2025
It includes conservation easements and state parks – lands that should not be available for development because of property law limits on development in any case. 1531 et seq.) But this is only a fraction of lands that require protection for endangered and sensitive species.
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The damage would be especially severe in the cluster of Liberal-held seats in southern Toronto, where the LPC would shed more than half its support, falling to third, behind the NDP and Conservatives. Premier Ford has publicly dismissed the need for considering the environmental impacts of the Highway.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list the eastern hellbender as an endangered species throughout its range under the Endangered Species Act. The ESA prohibits the take of species listed as endangered, which includes harming, harassing (such as removing from the wild), or killing the species.
Scientific American
AUGUST 6, 2025
For instance, the amendments would roll back current definitions of harm or disturbance to marine mammals while also requiring “impossibly high hurdles for conservation action,” according to a fact sheet from the Natural Resources Defense Council and other organizations that was issued earlier in July.
Acoel
JUNE 17, 2025
The Gardiner Ranch has some of the best remaining patches of open prairie in the central and southern plains and the Gardiners and a number of other ranchers have agreed to conserve the habitat they own by agreeing to work with Common Ground Capital , a private company, to establish a “ conservation bank ” on their property.
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