The Endangered Species Act is endangered

The Endangered Species Act is endangered

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Sharon S. Tisher is a lecturer emerita at the University of Maine. It’s a fundamental principle of wildlife biology that protecting imperiled species against destruction and fragmentation of their habitat is essential to conserve biological diversity. Habitat loss is the…

Florida endangered species at risk from Trump rule change, say environmentalists

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable species. Florida has 114 threatened or endangered species, including the Florida panther, manatees, ghost orchids and several species of sea turtles. The administration plans to change the interpretation of the word “harm” in the Endangered Species Act so it…

Trump Rule Change Threatens Protection for Endangered Species - One Green Planet

A Trump-era plan could remove protections for endangered animals by redefining “harm” to exclude destruction of their habitats. The post Trump Rule Change Threatens Protection for Endangered Species appeared first on One Green Planet.

ACTION ALERT: Oppose NOAA's Plan to Strip Habitat from ESA Safeguards — Orca Conservancy

Submit a public comment opposing the proposed rule by US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to rescind the definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to weaken environmental protections. Public comments are due 5/19/25.

What’s the harm? - Legal Planet

The administration has proposed revoking the definition of harm in the regulations implementing Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).  Section 9 is the section of the ESA that prohibits taking a member of a listed species.  The change is significant because that definition of harm included, in some circumstances, actions that modify the habitat of an endangered species.  Without this regulatory definition, the scope of the ESA could sig…

Federal Proposal to Rescind ESA’s ‘Harm’ Definition Raises the Stakes for California’s AB 1319

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, Services) proposed last week to rescind the regulatory definition of “harm” under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), sparking intense criticism from environmental advocacy groups. If finalized, the rescission would remove a longstanding protection for the habitat of wildlife species listed as threatened or endangered under the ESA, making …