ENSP 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Northern Spotted Owl, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Whooping Crane
2 May 2019
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If a species is listed as threatened and not endangered, they can be subject to less strict rules. Prohibits any person from taking, selling, importing, or exporting any protected species. Take means to harass, ahrm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill includes. Harm to species which includes significant habitat modification . Permit system for incidental take with mitigation. At least 80% (outdated number-but still most) of species live on private land. Cutting down a tree where a northern spotted owl nests. Operating a hotel with lights that disorient loggerhead turtles. Reduced water flows that harm whooping cranes. Ruled as a take by district court. Circuit ruled it was not a take . The esa at 45 (years old)-bipartisanship is extinct . Esa does not generally prevent development, but rather allows for mitigation of species impacts. Prohibits the take of marine mammals in us waters. Convention on international trade in endangered species (cites)-1975.
