Advocates Sue Fish and Wildlife Service Over Decision to Delay Listing Pacific Fisher

摘要

Conservation groups filed a lawsuit April 8 accusing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of illegally delaying federal protections for the Pacific fisher, a relative of the mink and otter (Center for Biological Diversity v. Salazar, N.D. Cal., No. 10-cv-0150 JCS, 4/8/10).rnFiled in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the complaint targets a 2004 decisionrnthat concluded protection of the fisher is warranted under the Endangered Species Act but precluded by listing of other species considered a higher priority.