2007-06-30
NEWS RELEASE
>The Center for North American Herpetology
>Lawrence, Kansas
>
>28 June 2007
>
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>Species Protection Waiting List Still Growing:
>Not a Single New Species Has Been Protected
>in More Than a Year
>
>San Francisco, California: In response to a
>lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity
>and Pacific Rivers Council, the U.S. Fish and
>Wildlife Service today published a “warranted
>but precluded" decision, agreeing with
>conservationists that the Mountain Yellow-legged
>Frog (Rana muscosa) deserves listing as an
>endangered species, but claiming listing is
>made impossible by “expeditious progress" on the
>listing of other species. This is the
>same decision the agency made more than four
>years ago, which the Ninth Circuit Court...
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