New Endangered Species Peer|Review Policy Scores A Point for ...

New Endangered Species Peer-Review Policy Scores A Point for ...

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released an update to its peer review policy for endangered species listings. The new policy ...

Endangered Species Act - Union of Concerned Scientists

... Wildlife Refuge Photo: Blu Chaney, USFWS: CC BY 2.0/Flickr. September 7, 2016. New Endangered Species Peer-Review Policy Scores A Point for Independent Science.

A new metric for conducting 5‐year reviews to evaluate recovery ...

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides legal protection to imperiled populations and their associated habitats. As a part of this process ...

Five-year Status Reviews | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

To make sure all species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) continue to have the appropriate level of ...

Listing and Delisting Processes of the Endangered Species Act

To further ensure that sound science underlies our decisions, the Service and NMFS established a joint "Policy for Peer Review in Endangered Species Act ...

A new metric for conducting 5-year reviews to evaluate recovery ...

Abstract. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides legal protection to imperiled populations and their associated habitats. As a part of this process, ...

Tracking species recovery status to improve U.S. endangered ...

First, ESA 5-year reviews lack a standardized format and clear documentation. Second, despite having been listed for decades, many species still ...

How States Are Improving Endangered Species Protections in 2024

As one-third of American wildlife species face extinction, more states are ramping up legislative efforts to increase protections for threatened ...

Independent Scientific Review under the Endangered Species Act

Recognizing the value of scientific review, the federal wildlife agencies nearly a quarter century ago issued a “peer review policy” that ...

The Effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act

As the ESA enters its 31st year, a comprehensive assessment of its role in species recovery is needed. Data for such an analysis are available ...

States Move Forward With Protecting Endangered Species

NCEL Point of Contact ... Nearly one-third of the nation's wildlife is at risk of extinction. Despite the successes of the federal Endangered ...

Updating requirements for Endangered, Threatened and Protected ...

The review identified a lack of consistency in the implementation of scoring guidelines ... species against the new favourable conservation status ...

Same law, diverging practice: Comparative analysis of Endangered ...

1. Introduction. The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is considered one of the strongest wildlife laws in the world [1]. Signed into law in ...

Threatened Species Status With Section 4(d) Rule for the Silverspot ...

Under the Act, a species warrants listing if it meets the definition of an endangered species (in danger of extinction throughout all or a ...

Under Threat: The Endangered Species Act and the Plants and ...

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of a number of visionary statutes enacted in the 1970s that provide a foundation for the protection, restoration, and ...

Demonstrating Return on Investment for Endangered Species ...

Working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Service, we developed and tested a new method of measuring changes in species recovery status in a ...

Protecting Endangered Species: Do the Main Legislative Tools Work?

Critical habitat designation is the most controversial aspect of the Act [13]. Although required for all species, it is currently only in place ...

The Effectiveness of Listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

... species. As a starting point for our analysis, we study the ESA's listing process. As in Metrick and. Weitzman (1996), we find that non-scientific variables ...

Endangered Species Act Review | U.S. Department of the Interior

The careful evaluation of scientific evidence is fundamental to the assessment of species for listing or delisting under the ESA. We do not have ...

Improving Implementation of the Endangered Species Act

The final area of ESA implementation that bears review is the process for determining recovery and formally removing species from the ESA list ...