State ESAs
Under the North American model of wildlife management, states take the lead on managing many species. Whether states have the laws and regulations needed to protect imperiled species is a question open to debate. Here, we provide quick and easy …
Dynamic recovery: Web-based ESA recovery plans
The U.S. Endangered Species Act directs the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to develop plans that guide the recovery of threatened and endangered species. All recovery plans to-date have been written …
ESA Counties
Knowing where ESA-listed species live is the first step to avoiding, minimizing, and mitigating impacts to them. This dashboard provides access to a filterable table of counties of occurence of ESA-listed species managed primarily by the U.S. Fish …
ESA Listing Workplan Explorer
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released a 7-year workplan used to prioritize ongoing species status reviews. FWS uses two different prioritization schemes; a 1-5 priority bin for status reviews of non-candidate species, and the Listing …
ESA Listings
<h3>-OBSOLETE-</h3> Since 1973, over 2,000 species have been listed as 'Threatened' or 'Endangered' under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) provides a detailed description of the listing …
Same law, different results: comparative analysis of Endangered Species Act consultations by two federal agencies
Evaluating how wildlife conservation laws are implemented is critical to determining how best to protect biodiversity. Two agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (FWS and NMFS; Services collectively), are …
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 …
Sand Mines Destroying Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Habitat
At Defenders’ Center for Conservation Innovation, we are using satellite images to track the footprint of all sand mines within or adjacent to lizard habitat. To see monthly images of the sand mines to date, follow the link below to our interactive …
The Importance of Properly Funding the ESA
A brief overview of Congressional appropriations and agency expenditures on the Endangered Species Act.