Endangered Species Protection in the United States: From Prohibition to Proactive Management
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 2 Holly Doremus, Comment, Patching the Ark: Improving Legal Protection of Biological Diversity, 18 Ecology L.Q. 265 (1991) (characterizing the Endangered Species Act as "the strongest legislation ever devised for the protection of non-human species").3 ESA § 4 (a) & (b), 16 U.S.C. § 1533 (a) & (b) (requiring the listing of "endangered" and "threatened" species "solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available").4 ESA § 9 (a)(1)(B) & (C), 16 U.S.C. § 1538(a)(1)(B) & (C) (prohibiting the "take" of any listed endangered species of fish or wildlife); ESA § 3(19), 16 U.S.C. § 1533(19) (defining "take" to mean "to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, to to attempt to engage in any such conduct").
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DOI: 10.33063/dl.vi.907
Author: Bradley C. Karkkainen
Institution: University of Minnesota
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2234109126