Posts Under ‘endangered species act’ Category

What's Endangered is Honest Debate

April 25, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, endangered species act | 5 comments

I’m having a flashback. It’s been triggered by all these bobble heads at the NYT discussing the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Amazingly, not one of these very smart bobble heads is an actual conservation biologist, who would, if he or she was given truth serum, have said that our most noble, high-minded environmental law is…Continue Reading…

Saving Species

October 1, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in conservation, conservation biology, ecology, endangered species act | No comments

While mulling the 6-year disappearance of the possibly extinct Chinese paddlefish, Andy Revkin reminds us of the enduring problem with our own approach to species protection: we have an Endangered Species Act intended to save species on the brink, but not a Thriving Ecosystems Act that tries to monitor and sustain diverse communities of species…Continue Reading…