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Article: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service Announce Draft Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts When Making Listing Decisions.
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- June 9, 2000
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FORT SNELLING, Minn., June 9 /PRNewswire/ --
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service announced a draft policy today identifying criteria that conservation agreements and other conservation efforts must satisfy in order to affect decisions on listing species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, including decisions on whether the conservation efforts make listing unnecessary.
The proposed policy is intended to guide the Agencies in making decisions about adding species to the federal list of threatened and endangered species. The policy explains the agencies' authority for considering future ...