[PCA] NEWS: Since '01, Guarding Species Is Harder

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032202204.html?hpid=topnews

Since '01, Guarding Species Is Harder
Endangered Listings Drop Under Bush

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 23, 2008; Page A01

With little-noticed procedural and policy moves over several years, Bush 
administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to 
designate domestic animals and plants for protection under the Endangered 
Species Act.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/03/23/GR2008032300097.html?sid=ST2008032300179