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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Alabama Newsletter for Tuesday June 06, 2023 ( 1 items )  

Center for Biological Diversity: Legal Victory Gives Southern Hognose Snake Another Chance at Endangered Species Protections
WASHINGTON, June 6 (TNSgov) -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on June 5, 2023: In a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to consider granting Endangered Species Act protections to the southern hognose snake. The species lives in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. In 2019 the agency wrongly denied the southern hognose snake protection despite population declines of at least 60%. The species  more