Swift Action Required to Save Species Down by 13 Percent Since 2015
Photo courtesy USFWS.
TUCSON, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016. In response to a court ruling last fall, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today removed Endangered Species Act protection for lesser prairie chickens without proposing a new protections for the birds, which have lost more than 90 percent of their prairie habitat. Last year’s legal ruling required the agency to vacate its 2014 decision to…
