Sunday, March 23, 2008

Bush Is Allowing Species Extinctions

The Washington Post reports Bush has made Guarding Species Is Harder.

"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."

"During Bush's more than seven years as president, his administration has placed 59 domestic species on the endangered list, almost the exact number that his father listed during each of his four years in office. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has not declared a single native species as threatened or endangered since he was appointed nearly two years ago."

The article discusses some species like specific salmon, rabbits, prairie dogs, butterflies, snails, etc. that should be protected but aren't.

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