Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Plant and Animal Taxa That Are Candidates or Proposed for Listing as Endangered or Threatened, Annual Notice of Findings on Recycled Petitions, and Annual Description of Progress on Listing Actions

概要

In this document, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) presents an updated list of plant and animal taxa native to the United States that are regarded as candidates or proposed for possible addition to the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). Identification of candidate taxa can assist environmental planning efforts by providing advance notice of potential listings, allowing resource managers to alleviate threats and thereby possibly remove the need to list taxa as endangered or threatened. Even if a candidate taxon is subsequently listed, the early notice provided here could result in fewer restrictions on activities by prompting candidate conservation measures to alleviate threats to the taxon. The Service requests additional status information that may be available for the identified candidate taxa and information indicating that taxa not presently regarded as candidates should be included in future updates of this list. This information will be considered in preparing listing documents and future revisions to the notice of review. It will also help the Service monitor changes in the status of candi