Managing for Cryptic Species

What is the best approach when a species becomes endangered to the point that it is difficult or impossible to observe?

Study shows when to manage species

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Stephen Pincock
ABC

Conservationists should carry on managing the environment as if a seemingly vanished species is still around, rather than rushing to check whether it is extinct, say researchers.

A team from Australia, France and the United Kingdom have used...(complete article here).

Endangered Species Regulations: New Approach

A new approach to federal evaluation of projects and their impact on Endangered Species.

Bush to relax protected species rules

By DINA CAPPIELLO

WASHINGTON - Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.

New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the...(complete article here).

For additional reading: Secretary Kempthorne Proposes Narrow Changes To ESA Consultation Process

New Conservation Mechanism Announced

Finding threatened or endangered species on private land sends shivers up the spine of the land owner. The Endangered Species Act penalizes landowners through restrictions. New ways to incent landowners to report threatened or endangered species and to gain their cooperation in preservation or recovery efforts is good.


Secretary Kempthorne Announces New Conservation Mechanism for Threatened and Endangered Species

Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has developed an innovative new tool designed to help federal agencies conserve imperiled species on non-federal lands. The recovery crediting system will give federal agencies greater flexibility to offset impacts to threatened and endangered species caused by their actions by undertaking conservation efforts on non-federal lands, with the requirement that there is a net benefit to...(complete article here).

Black-footed Ferrets Get Vaccine

The black-footed ferret is one of my favorite critters. Sometimes it is difficult to walk the line between interference and rescue. This is an interesting effort to control pague in the wild.

Ouch! Taking a Shot at Plague: Vaccine Offers Hope for Endangered Ferrets in Plague Outbreak

Endangered black-footed ferrets, like children, aren't exactly lining up to be stuck with a vaccine, but in an effort to help control an extensive outbreak of plague in South Dakota, some of the ferrets are getting dosed with a vaccine given by biologists.

This is the first time the vaccine has been used during a major plague epizootic—an animal version of a human epidemic. Sylvatic plague is an infectious bacterial disease usually...(complete article here).