US Abandons Jaguar Recovery Effort (New Mexico, Arizona)

[Quixote1818]

Wonder if this has to do with the stupid border fence?





By H. JOSEF HEBERT – 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department has abandoned attempts to craft a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar because too few of the rare cats have been spotted along the Southwest region of New Mexico and Arizona to warrant such action.

Some critics of the decision said Thursday the jaguar is being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is going up along many of the same areas where the cat has crossed into the United States from Mexico.

If the U.S. border areas were designated critical recovery areas for the jaguar, then it would constrain the Homeland Security Department in building the fence, said Kieran Suckling, policy director of the Center for Biological Diversity.

"That's the central issue here," Suckling said, not the explanation provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His group has a lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court in Phoenix asking the court to force the wildlife agency to develop a recovery plan.

More: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hblND5zgyy106dC7nu4r91kV5hZQD8U7UG903

[MH1]

1. But "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between Rs and Ds.

:cry:

[angstlessk]

2. So a species is NOT endangered if you cannot find enough of them

to delcare they are endangered and need protection?? IS THAT THE GIST OF THIS IDIOTIC LOGIC?