COURT UPHOLDS PROTECTION
FOR ENDANGERED OWL’S HABITAT


Critical habitat is defined as "areas of land and water with features essential to the conservation of a threatened or endangered species." Critical habitat provides protection for endangered species by requiring federal agencies to ensure that any projects they fund, permit, or carry out do not jeopardize the existence of endangered species or adversely modify their habitat. In the case of the Mexican spotted owl, critical habitat ensures that Forest Service logging does not drive the owl to extinction or limit their recovery.
Shoutout to The Center for Biological Diversity for intervening in court in support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to the nonprofit Western Environmental Law Center who represented them, and to the federal court for upholding the critical habitat designation. Shoutout to all who gave a hoot! (these puns are weak, I know)
Sources, resources, discourses:
1. ENN – article
2. Center for Biological Diversity – press release
3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – website
4. Federal court ruling
5. Wikimedia Commons – photo
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