The Trump administration issued a memo on September 17, 2026, directing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop treating the foreseeable, unintentional killing of protected wildlife as an unlawful 'take' under the Endangered Species Act.
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The Trump administration has further reduced protections for endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). That law prohibits any “take” of endangered species, which it defines as to “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.” The administration recently repealed a previous definition of...
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In a recent memo, the US government would no longer consider the unintentional killing of protected wildlife as unlawful.
Trump administration allows inadvertent killing of endangered species AP News
Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act.
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The Trump administration has directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop treating the foreseeable, unintentional killing of protected wildlife as an unlawful “take” under the Endangered Species Act. A Sept. 14 directive signed by agency Director Brian Nesvik says prohibited conduct must intentionally target a particular animal or animals; the Interior Department confirmed the memo’s authen
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump administration memo reduces ESA protections The Trump administration has further reduced protections for wildlife and plants under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). © Joy Asico, Associated Press Content Services for Center for Biological Diversity The law prohibits any “take” of endangered species — meaning...
Trump officials move to dismantle key protection for US endangered species ->The Guardian | More on "Endangered Species Act protections weakened" at BigEarthData.ai | #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #Extinction More than 1,600 critically imperiled species protected under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) face losing further federal protections following a new reinterpretation of the 1973 law by
Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the move "stabs at the very heart of the Endangered Species Act by giving federal approval to the killing of some of America’s most beloved wildlife."
grist.org/language/end... The Trump administration has upended protections for thousands of endangered species by redefining the words "take" and "harm."