For Star subscribers: Center for Biological Diversity alleges feds missed a legal deadline to decide whether to list the tiny, saguaro-nesting cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as threatened.
Tony Davis A Tucson environmental group filed suit Thursday to try to force the federal government to move faster on protecting the once-endangered pygmy owl and a flock of other species it says are imperiled.
The lawsuit also listed 12 other species for which service decisions on whether to list or not are running behind schedule. Greenwald said, “The Fish and Wildlife Service’s program for protecting species is badly broken and the administration is doing nothing to fix it. The Endangered Species Act is our best tool for addressing the extinction crisis, but it only works if we actually use it.”
In its news release Thursday, the center said the Biden administration is lagging behind other, recent Democratic administrations in listing imperiled species. The Biden administration has protected 11 species per year compared to 65 species a year under the Clinton administration and 36 species each year under the Obama administration, the center said.
But that protection disappeared in 2006, when a lawsuit filed by various homebuilder groups led to a service decision to"de-list" the owl. The homebuilders groups, including the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association, said the owl didn't deserve protection in the United States because it was far more common in northern Mexico.
It concluded at the time that the owl was threatened by habitat loss from development and other urbanization, invasive species and either crop production or forest-based timber harvesting. It also said the bird could be affected by hotter, more arid conditions throughout much of its range, due to past, present and future climate changes.
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