Legal Action Taken to Close Loopholes Preventing Full Protection
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 10, 2014. Three conservation groups today announced a legal challenge to force full protection of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The move comes in response to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to protect the highly imperiled bird only as “threatened” while providing special exemptions that would allow ongoing destruction of their dwindling grassland habitat.
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