Waterkeepers Chesapeake: Lawsuit Launched to Overturn Denial of Endangered Species Protection for Eastern Hellbenders
March 05, 2021
March 05, 2021
TACOMA PARK, Maryland, March 5 -- Waterkeepers Chesapeake issued the following news release on March 4, 2021:
Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision in April 2019 to deny Endangered Species Act protection to eastern hellbenders. These river-dwelling salamanders can grow longer than 2 feet and live in clear, fast-flowing mountain streams in 15 southeastern, midwestern and northeastern states. They have now . . .
Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision in April 2019 to deny Endangered Species Act protection to eastern hellbenders. These river-dwelling salamanders can grow longer than 2 feet and live in clear, fast-flowing mountain streams in 15 southeastern, midwestern and northeastern states. They have now . . .