Alteration of wildlife habitat as a prohibited taking under the Endangered Species Act
- Author:
-
Davison, Steven G.
- Title:
- Alteration of wildlife habitat as a prohibited taking under the Endangered Species Act
- Periodical:
- Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law
- Year:
- 1995
- Volume:
- 10
- Pages:
- 155-239
- Subject:
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
Endangered species birds
Habitat ecology modification
Loxioides bailleui
Palila
- Summary:
- The destruction or alteration of wildlife habitat may deprive members of a particular species of food, shelter, protection, reproduction sites, or nesting sites, and may cause the death of individual wild animals and, eventually, the extinction of an entire species of wildlife. Habitat modification of a wildlife species may result in the eventual extinction of the species when members of the species are unable to adapt to changes in their habitat. This may happen when the species "become intimately tied" to the conditions of their existing habitat "through evolution". This is the case with the Hawaiian Honeycreeper called the Palila (Drepanidinae) as a result of the reduction of the mamane forest. This document describes how the Endangered Species Act of 1973 that contains several provisions that seek to protect and preserve the habitat of endangered and threatened species. The Act also grants the Secretaries of the Interior, Commerce and Agriculture the authority to acquire land in an effort to preserve the habitat of protected species such as fish, wildlife, and plants that are part of the conservation programs that are designed to protect the endangered and threatened species. The words, "harm", "taking", and "harass", are also described and defined with regard to habitat modification as it relates to the habitat of the Palila.
- Label:
- Birds - Palila
- URL:
- https://law.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/upcbnu1581/files/JLUEL/jluel-v10n2.pdf
- Date:
- 1995
- Collection:
- Periodicals