The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are proposing to “rescind the regulatory definition of ‘harm’” in their regulations pertaining to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 (see go.nature.com/4jdfgud). The aim is to remove habitat protections and focus only on preventing intentional acts that cause injury to individual animals. This is misguided.
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Source: Ecology - nature.com
