Compliance

Recovery units under the Endangered Species Act could be used more widely image.

Recovery units under the Endangered Species Act could be used more widely

Recovering species is one of the main goals of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In the face of limited budgets, diverse tools are needed to find efficient solutions. Recovery units may be one such tool -designated portions of a species range that …
Free aerial imagery as a resource to monitor compliance with the Endangered Species Act image.

Free aerial imagery as a resource to monitor compliance with the Endangered Species Act

Compliance monitoring is an integral part of law and policy implementation. A lack of compliance monitoring for the Endangered Species Act (ESA), driven in part by resource limitations, may be undercutting efforts to recover threatened and endangered …