Landmark Agreement Moves 757 Species Toward Federal Protection

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/species_agreement/index.html

On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species by 2018. The Endangered Species Act is America's strongest environmental law and surest way to save species threatened with extinction.

The agreement caps a decade-long effort by the Center's scientists, attorneys and activists to safeguard 1,000 of America's most imperiled, least protected species including the walrus, wolverine, Mexican grey wolf, fisher, New England cottontail rabbit, three species of sage grouse, scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, California golden trout, Miami blue butterfly, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, 403 southeastern river-dependent species, 42 Great basin springsnails and 32 Pacific Northwest mollusks.

The Center's wrote scientific petitions and/or filed lawsuits to win federal protection for each of the 757 species.

Amphibians


Arizona treefrog,
Huachuca Canelo population

Austin blind salamander

Bay Springs salamander

Berry cave salamander

Black warrior waterdog

Chamberlain's dwarf salamander

Columbia spotted frog,
Great Basin population

Coquí llanero

Cumberland dusky salamander

Eastern hellbender

Florida bog frog

Georgetown salamander

Georgia blind salamander

Gulf hammock dwarf siren

Jemez Mountain salamander

Jollyville Plateau salamander

Neuse River waterdog

Northern leopard frog

Oklahoma salamander

One-toed amphiuma

Oregon spotted frog

Ozark hellbender

Patch-nosed Salamander

Relict leopard frog

Salado salamander

Seepage salamander

Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog

Streamside salamander

Striped newt

Tehachapi slender salamander
Tennessee cave salamander

West Virginia Spring salamander

Yosemite toad

Reptiles
Alabama map turtle
Barbour's map turtle
Black-knobbed map turtle
Black pine snake
Eastern massasauga
Eastern ribbonsnake - lower Florida Keys
Escambia map turtle
Florida Keys mole skink
Florida red-bellied turtle - Florida Panhandle
Kirtland's snake
Louisiana pine snake
Mexican garter snake
Mojave fringe-toed lizard
Northern red-bellied cooter
Pascagoula map turtle
Sand dune (sagebrush) lizard
Sonoran desert tortoise
Sonoyta mud turtle
South Florida rainbow snake
Striped mud turtle - lower Florida Keys
Tucson shovel-nosed snake
Western chicken turtle