Regulation & law · 09/10/2018

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Threatened Species Status for Eastern Black Rail

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a 12-month petition finding that warrants listing the eastern black rail, a bird subspecies found in 35 states and several countries, as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The proposed rule would extend protections to the subspecies and add it to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.