Tag: ESA

January 19, 2021

Interior least terns to be removed from ESA list

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) has recovered and therefore will be removed from the list of threatened and endangered...

December 30, 2020

USFWS considers allowing development in rare lizard habitat

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may allow oil and gas development as well as other activities in areas that can harm or kill rare lizards native to the area....

December 23, 2020

Final critical habitat rule released

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final rule updating its process of excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species under Endangered Species Act....

December 21, 2020

USFWS declines to list monarch or uplist owl

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that higher priority listing actions under the Endangered Species Act will prevent it from listing the monarch butterfly or uplisting the northern...

December 18, 2020

ESA releases final habitat definition

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service have released the final definition of the term “habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. Until now, neither the ESA nor...

December 16, 2020

USFWS declines to list tufted puffin and ptarmigan

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declined to list both the tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) and the southern white-tailed ptarmigan (Lagopus leucura altipetens) under the Endangered Species Act. The...

December 16, 2020

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service faces lawsuits over sage-grouse, lynx

The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project have filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as other Department of...

November 12, 2020

Agencies agree to do more to conserve Mexican spotted owl

Under an agreement finalized last week, Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) populations in the Southwest will receive additional monitoring and conservation measures by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

November 4, 2020

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delists gray wolf

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the contiguous United States from the Endangered Species Act. First listed under the ESA in the 1970’s,...

October 29, 2020

Challenge to meadow jumping mouse habitat designation denied

A U.S. federal district court judge dismissed a 2018 lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2016 designation of critical habitat for the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse (Zapus...