Sep 12 2008
Bush’s Last-Ditch Effort to Gut Endangered Species
One of the many hallmarks of the Bush Administration these past 8 years has been a targeting of the Endangered Species Act, in the service of industrial corporations. Now, in a last-ditch effort to gut the act, before it’s own tenure expires, the Bush White House has proposed drastic changes to weaken the ESA. Passed in 1973, the ESA is the most wide-ranging of the dozens of environmental laws approved in the 1970s. It was designed to protect living species in critical danger of extinction as a result of “economic growth and development untendered by adequate concern and conservation.” A coalition of conservation groups in California are suing the government to restore safeguards for a variety of Sierra wildlife that are under threat because of monitoring requirements that were removed last year. Meanwhile, a recent study reports that nearly 40 percent of freshwater fish species in North America are in danger of extinction because of pollution and dams. Researchers found that 700 individual fish populations are threatened – nearly double the amount from 20 years ago. 457 species are already feared to be extinct.
GUEST: Jamie Rappaport-Clark, Executive Vice President of Defenders of Wildlife
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