Democracy works for Endangered Species Act: Citizens do better job than government at picking threatened species
Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 19:00
in Biology & Nature
In protecting endangered species, the power of the people is key, an analysis of listings under the US Endangered Species Act finds. The analysis compares listings of "endangered" and "threatened" species initiated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency that administers the Endangered Species Act, to those initiated by citizen petition. Researchers found that citizens, on average, do a better job of picking species that are threatened than does the FWS.