Center for Biological Diversity Comments on the Red Wolfs Five Year Status Review Dec 21 2016

Hawaii to Cleft Downwards on Monk Seal Killers

In expert news for one of the earth's most imperiled marine mammals, this Tuesday a Hawaiian senator introduced legislation that would make information technology a felony to kill or harm Hawaiian monk seals and other endangered species. Within the past year, 2 male monk seals and i meaning female person fell victim to deadly shootings -- even as the seal's population is expected to drop beneath i,000 animals within a few years due to starvation, climate alter, entanglement in marine debris, habitat loss, and other threats. Last year saw the lowest number of pups ever produced during breeding season; the population is declining by 4 percent annually. The Hawaiian monk seal'southward cousin, the Caribbean monk seal, was announced extinct in 2008.

In response to a scientific petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, terminal year the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it would designate federally protected "disquisitional habitat" for Hawaiian monk seals on the main Hawaiian Islands, which the species are increasingly populating and which may provide its terminal opportunity for recovery.

Check out our press release and learn about our entrada to save the Hawaiian monk seal.

It'due south Global Population Speak Out Month

This Tuesday, as part of our ambitious campaign to fight overpopulation, the Center for Biological Variety announced participation in the 2nd annual Global Population Speak Out, a month-long endeavor to publicize the crisis of unsustainable human population growth. The Speak Out is a disquisitional way to raise awareness most overpopulation, which is driving every major cause of mass extinction -- but which very few conservation groups confront.

Read our Speak Out printing release , bank check out our Overpopulation Spider web page , and brand your ain pledge to speak out this month on overpopulation.

Action Brewing to Salve 800 Species From Pesticide Poisoning

To save more than than 800 endangered species from death and harm from toxic pesticides, last week the Center for Biological Diversity filed detect of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over registration of almost 400 chemicals that threaten imperiled species -- equally well every bit man wellness. The EPA has violated the Endangered Species Deed by failing to consult with federal wildlife agencies nearly pesticides' impacts on species beyond the nation earlier approving them for use. The agency has also violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Human activity by registering pesticides known to damage and kill sensitive migratory birds.

Our detect of intent seeks to protect 887 at-take a chance animal and plant species, including the Florida panther, coho salmon, California condor, and mountain yellowish-legged frog. We've already forced the EPA to consult on the impacts of scores of pesticides on a suite of California species such equally the California red-legged frog and Delta smelt. Said the Heart's Jeff Miller, "For too long this agency'south oversight has been bottomless, allowing the pesticide industry to unleash a virtual plague of toxic chemicals into our environment."

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

Center Goes to Courtroom for Mexican Greyness Wolf

Last calendar week the Middle for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for its failure to human activity on our petition to grant the Mexican greyness wolf its own place on the endangered species listing. The Mexican wolf is singled-out from other gray wolves and should be recognized equally such with its ain Endangered Species Act protections as an endangered subspecies or "distinct population segment." But the Mexican wolf is currently lumped together nether the Act with grey wolves elsewhere in the country. And the Service has missed its November deadline to respond to the Center's petition from last summer to fix that .

Earning its own place on the endangered species list would require the development of a new Mexican wolf recovery plan -- which is crucial, since the current 1 is near iii decades old and contains no numeric population, distribution, or genetic diverseness targets. It would likewise give better guidance for managing the sole existing wolf population -- which hovered at just 52 animals and ii breeding pairs at the end of 2008.

Get more from KSWT News.

Friending the Pacific Fisher

This Th, the Center for Biological Diverseness and allies sent a find of intent to sue the Interior Section for the feds' failure to protect the Pacific fisher -- a slender, mink-related mammal native to West Coast forests. Though the fisher is at present reduced to just two populations in the West due to habitat loss from logging and development, the U.Southward. Fish and Wild fauna Service hasn't protected the fauna, instead putting it on the listing of "candidates" for Endangered Species Act safeguards -- where it's supposed to wait for protection while progress is fabricated on other, "higher priority" species protections. But the Service is making essentially no progress on protecting other species -- thus, it has no alibi for not protecting the fisher now.

The Center and others petitioned to protect the Pacific fisher in 2000, and a decade is far also long for the mammal to wait for the help it urgently needs.

Bank check out our press release and learn more than well-nigh the Pacific fisher.

Deadly Soot Pollution Targeted

This Monday, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the Ecology Protection Agency for failing to limit dangerous pollution from particles similar soot and dust. Particulate matter, or PM-10, is made up of tiny particles -- about x times tinier than the width of a human hair -- that can travel deep into the lungs and seriously damage human health when breathed, too as forming regional haze that cloaks vistas in scenic places throughout the West. Particulate pollution also includes soot, or "blackness carbon," which is i of the most potent contributors to global warming. Just in violation of the Clean Air Human activity, the EPA has failed to watchdog v western states to make certain they're post-obit laws to protect the public -- and the climate -- from particulate air pollution.

"This kind of pollution is muddy and dangerous," says the Center'due south Kevin Bundy, "and EPA needs to practice what the law requires to get it out of the air.

Read more than in the Idaho Statesman.

Lawsuit Launched to Terminate Lead Poisoning of Seabirds

As many as 10,000 Laysan albatross chicks die per yr from lead poisoning on Hawaii'southward Midway Atoll -- so this Mon, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal warning that we'll sue the U.S. Fish and Wild animals Service and other agencies for failure to make clean upwardly the source. Toxic, lead-based paint fries are shedding from deteriorating buildings at a decommissioned military base on the island, leaving baby albatrosses -- which consume the chips -- with nerve damage called "droopwing." Unable to lift their wings, these chicks will never fly and drag their wings painfully forth the ground, becoming susceptible to open sores, fractures, and tedious expiry. Lead poisoning from the same war machine base threatens the highly endangered Laysan duck and 17 other seabirds.

"For also long the Fish and Wildlife Service has stood by while thousands of albatross chicks die needlessly every year," said Shaye Wolf, a Heart biologist. "If they don't take activity to cease this problem, we volition."

Read more in the Washington Post and expect at devastating photos of lead-poisoned boundness chicks.

Eye Takes on Cruel Rattlesnake Roundups

To stop the indiscriminate -- and abhorrently legal -- killing of eastern diamondback rattlesnakes in the Southeast, terminal Thursday the Center for Biological Variety wrote to the governor of Georgia urging the state to outlaw rattlesnake roundups. During these annual contests, hunters bring in as many rattlesnakes equally they tin take hold of in a year, at which indicate the snakes are slaughtered and sold for meat and peel. A contempo report shows that roundups have seriously depleted populations of eastern diamondbacks in the Southeast -- just Georgia still holds two of the gorefests every twelvemonth. Rattlesnake roundups too impairment other species, since serpent collectors spray gasoline into tortoise burrows to capture their prey, destroying the burrows and usually killing the other animals within. More than than 350 other wildlife species employ gopher tortoise burrows, and the tortoise itself is under consideration for Endangered Species Act protection.

"These senseless killing contests are imperiling entire ecosystems and must be stopped," said Center biologist Tierra Back-scratch. "Roundups should be replaced with festivals that celebrate native wild fauna."

Check out our press release and learn more about why rattlesnake roundups should exist outlawed.

"Saving 1,000 Species": Listen to Our Biodiversity Briefing

With the International Year of Biodiversity well on its style, terminal week the Center for Biological Diversity focused our quarterly Biodiversity Briefing on our campaign to win protections for America'due south 1,000 almost endangered species. During the briefing phone call, Executive Manager Kierán Suckling went over the iv main means in which we're pushing for protections: securing animals and plants a place on the endangered species list, keeping them there when protections are challenged, earning them protected "critical habitat," and making sure they have the federal recovery plans they need for long-term survival. From cleaning upward the catastrophes left by the Bush administration to earning Endangered Species Human activity protections for 249 "candidate" species, 144 petitioned-for species, and 500 rare Southeast aquatic species, Suckling describes what needs to be done and how nosotros're already doing information technology.

"We're looking at ways to systematically go at this -- treat it similar the crisis that it is," said Suckling. "We really should be able to plow [the Obama administration] around and get some really big new protections we've been waiting decades for."

Listen to the briefing and learn about our campaign to save America'due south ane,000 most endangered species. For information on how you lot can bring together the Centre'southward Leadership Circle and exist invited to participate in Biodiversity Briefings live when they happen, e-mail Development Managing director Jennifer Shepherd or call her at (520) 396-1135.

Tiny Toads Saved From Extinction

Once upon a time -- actually, for many thousands of years -- some xx,000 bright-golden spray toads lived on the misty edges of a waterfall on the Kihansi River in Tanzania. So isolated were the tiny creatures that they evolved into the only toad species in the world that gives nativity to live young instead of laying eggs. Each baby is minor enough to fit on the head of pin.

The toads were discovered in 1998, by which time the Earth Bank, which would non fit on the head of a pin and has been known to eat its own young, decided to destroy their habitat with a dam. Which it did. But just as the spray toad was about to go extinct, 499 were scooped up by conservationists and flown to the Bronx Zoo.

So desperate was the situation that scientists conducted a C-section on a dead pregnant toad to save her children. Since then, the population has grown to about 4,000 animals in the Bronx and Toledo zoos. Scientists -- with the Globe Bank'southward belated help -- are now planning to return the species to its native habitat in Tanzania.

People can work miracles when we mind to the better angels of our nature.

Center for Biological Diversity Comments on the Red Wolfs Five Year Status Review Dec 21 2016

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