Administration Proposal Will Hurt Endangered Species by Enabling Habitat Destruction, ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2014. The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today, signed by 207 conservation groups, criticizing a proposal that weakens habitat protections for endangered species.
Under the Endangered Species Act, federal agencies are prohibited from “adversely modifying” — that is, hurting — critical habitat for endangered species in actions they fund,…
