Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Investor’s Business Daily just published a foolish editorial about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent proposal to designate over 200,000 square miles of Alaskan coast and sea ice as “critical habitat” for the State’s beleaguered polar bear population. The...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
It’s been a good couple of weeks for polar bears. First, the Department of the Interior announced that it would propose tighter international regulations of polar bear trophy hunting and trade under international law and, today, the Department of the...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Amidst all the well-deserved concern for wildlife and species loss, it’s good to be reminded every once and a while that life is stubborn. I was reminded of life’s persistence today, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally began...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As Josh pointed out, yesterday NRDC filed a lawsuit challenging the critical habitat designation of the tidewater goby, a small fish, unique to its genus, that can only be found in the brackish estuaries, salt marshes, and lagoons along...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I noticed in today's Federal Register that the Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the public comment period on its proposal to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the Hawaiian hawk and for its proposed designation of critical habitat for...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
NRDC and our partner organizations have settled our lawsuit against the Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision to exclude 13,000 acres of critical habitat for the Hines's Emerald Dragonfly from the National Forests in Michigan and Missouri. The...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today’s wildlife news is a mix of the encouraging and the daunting. One the one hand, polar bear conservation took a modest but important step forward yesterday, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to designate “critical habitat” for...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
A few months ago, I noted that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had designated "critical habitat" for the Hine's emerald dragonfly, a beautiful insect found only in a few locations in the Midwest.Two places where Hine's emerald dragonflies can...continued→
