Enhancement Permits:
The FWS imposes burdensome requirement that trade in species “enhances the
survival of that species” before it will issue import permits for threatened and endangered species even if such
import would be allowed under the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species. The additional enhancement
finding requirement by FWS is significant burden to international hunting, which has been shown to be the most
effective means of funding sustainable wildlife conservation in developing countries.
Climate Change:
Radical anti-hunting and protectionist organizations have spent millions of dollars in an effort to
manipulate the mandates of the ESA to list animals for the express purpose of regulating greenhouse gases. The
ESA is not the correct vehicle for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. These efforts distort the purpose of the ESA
and stretch the administrative capacities and scientific expertise of the FWS and NMFS far beyond their limits.
HOW ABOUT THIS AS ANOTHER SUBJECT FOR YOUR KIDS TO WORK ON FOR A SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT?
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Do you want to know more? See…
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the official CITES website…
…the USFWS website…
…relevant USFWS hunting/fishing information…
Since the late 1980s, there have been over one hundred Congressional hearings on the
ESA, and dozens of public “listening sessions” in all geographic regions of the country.
Secretary Salazar has called for the ESA to be reformed, saying the Act is “unmanageable
and unproductive.”
It is time to update and modernize the Endangered Species Act
so that we can do better job in recovering species.
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