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Policy News: May 9, 2022

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White House Fact Sheet: President Biden Signs Executive Order to Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation. In December 2020, USFWS made a determination that listing the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act is “warranted but precluded.”.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it designated the northern long-eared bat as “threatened” rather than “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. Peruvian Youth Filed Action Against Government Demanding Action on Climate Change, Amazon Rainforest.

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Policy News: January 10, 2022

ESA

Lovejoy III, an ecologist who dedicated his career to preserving the Amazon rainforest, dies at 80 – The Washington Post. USFWS : The agency is proposing listing the ferruginous pygmy-owl ( Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum ), which is found in Mexico, Arizona and Texas, as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

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