Proposed ESA Listing for Eastern Hellbender Comes Not a Moment Too Soon
December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news release:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to list the eastern hellbender salamander as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, providing critical protections to a species whose habitat strongholds in western North Carolina and Tennessee were decimated earlier this year by Hurricane Helene.
"The eastern hellbender needs help now more than ever,&qu . . .
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to list the eastern hellbender salamander as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, providing critical protections to a species whose habitat strongholds in western North Carolina and Tennessee were decimated earlier this year by Hurricane Helene.
"The eastern hellbender needs help now more than ever,&qu . . .