Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON After more than 30 years of consideration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized the listing of the rare bog buck moth as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. But the agency failed to designate any critical habitat for the moth, despite habitat protections being critical to the species’ survival.
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For Immediate Release, May 5, 2021
Contact:
Maya K. van Rossum, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, 215-369-1188 x 102, keeper@delawareriverkeeper.org
Delaware Urged to Ban Commercial Trapping of Wild Turtles
Unlimited Numbers of Snapping Turtles Can Currently Be Caught, Sold
DOVER,
Del. The Center for Biological Diversity and Delaware Riverkeeper Network petitioned the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control today to end commercial collection of the state’s common snapping turtles. Under current state law, turtle trappers can legally collect unlimited numbers of common snapping turtles to sell domestically or export for food and medicinal markets.
“The commercial harvest of turtles is always unsustainable and bad for our rivers,” said Tamara Strobel, a staff scientist at the Center. “It’s time for Delaware to step up and add its name to the growing list of states that have banned commercial turtle trapping, which t
BRETT FRENCH
A Mexican-based companyâs proposal to explore for gypsum along the base of the Pryor Mountains, if approved, could threaten a rare plant species â the thick-leaf bladder pod.
Thatâs the contention of several conservation groups that have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare the species threatened or endangered, thereby protecting its habitat from the project.
The Bureau of Land Management issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for the four-acre drilling plan near Gyp Springs last year, meaning it didnât believe the work merited more intensive scrutiny under an environmental impact statement. But the drilling has not yet been authorized.
For Immediate Release, March 11, 2021
Contact:
Peter Lesica, Montana Native Plant Society, lesica.peter@gmail.com
Dick Walton, Pryors Coalition, (406)-656-9064, info@PryorMountains.org
Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Rare Montana Plant
Thick-leaf Bladderpod Threatened by Gypsum Mining
BILLINGS,
Mont. Conservation groups filed a petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the thick-leaf bladderpod under the Endangered Species Act. The rare plant is found in a small area of southern Montana’s Pryor Desert, where it is supposed to be protected, but instead is under imminent threat by gypsum mining.
“This burly little plant survives in a harsh, cold desert, but it can’t survive mining,” said Tamara Strobel, a staff scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Without protection under the Endangered Species Act, the thick-leaved bladderpod and its unique habitat will be lost forever.”