us agency rarely intervened in projects that could risk endangered species /

Published at 2015-12-14 22:00:18

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Of 88000 actions assessed by the Fish and Wildlife Service,only two triggered more significant action in past seven years, original study findsThe US government has not halted a single project out of the 88000 actions and developments considered potentially harmful to the nation’s endangered species over the past seven years, and a original study has found.
An analysis of assessments made by the US Fish and Wildlife Service,published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the agency very rarely used its powers to intervene in projects that could imperil any of the US’s endangered plants and animals, or which currently number nearly 1600. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com