[PCA] NEWS: 50 Conservation Groups Ask Obama Admin to Strengthen Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Mar 11 09:20:25 CST 2010
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/10-0
Fifty Conservation Groups Ask Obama Administration to Strengthen Habitat
Protections for Endangered Species
WASHINGTON - March 10 - Fifty prominent conservation organizations sent a
letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Secretary of Commerce Gary
Locke today asking them to strengthen protections for the nation's
endangered species. Under the Endangered Species Act, federal agencies are
prohibited from adversely modifying designated critical habitat of any
endangered species. The groups are asking for a more specific regulatory
definition of "adverse modification" in order to halt projects that
destroy habitat.
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