ESA Under Fire
This Salon piece on the Bush administration's efforts to effectively gut the Endangered Species Act is startling, if depressingly unsurprising and not the first time this has happened.
From the lede:
The proposed changes limit the number of species that can be protected and curtail the acres of wildlife habitat to be preserved. It shifts authority to enforce the act from the federal government to the states, and it dilutes legal barriers that protect habitat from sprawl, logging or mining.
And, in case you doubt this administration's hostility toward endangered species, check this.
Species granted endangered status under the last 4 presidents:
Clinton - 521
Reagan - 253
Bush I - 234
George W. Bush - 57
(that's fewer than any administration in history, and each case had to be brought via lawsuit)
More on this later, after I do a little research - there's actually some interesting thinking going on in the enviro world re: how to improve the ESA and remove the current problems it's facing with private landowners and Measure 37-style calls for compensation.
Comments
Obviously, under any administration, the number of species listed as endangered is in no way something to trumpet as an achievement. I'm interested to see what else you can find to put those figures into a context that's perhaps a little more fair...I mean, it's no secret the current admin. has run one of the most aggressive campaigns to gut the ESA (and I was so happy to see Rep. Pombo (R-CA) go!), and we're in the midst of what some scientists say is the next great extinction, but we have to keep our arguments pretty solid. I'm thinking "An Inconvenient Truth" here and how that's essentially a propaganda piece.
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