New Rule Extends Endangered Status to Animals in Captivity
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WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 15, 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week it will start classifying all chimpanzees, both wild and captive, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
The new rule extends greater protection to captive chimpanzees by changing their protective status from “threatened” to “endangered” — the same status of chimpanzees in the wild. The new designation, which will be…
