Improving species status assessments under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and implications for multispecies conservation challenges worldwide.

ABSTRACT: Despite its successes, the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) has proven challenging to implement due to funding limitations, workload backlog, and other problems. As threats to species survival intensify and as more species come under threat, the need for the ESA and similar conservation laws and policies in other countries to function efficiently has grown. Attempts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to streamline ESA decisions include multispecies recovery plans and habitat conservation plans. We address species status assessment (SSA), a USFWS process to inform ESA decisions from listing to recovery, within the context of multispecies and ecosystem planning. Although existing SSAs have a single-species focus, ecosystem-based research can efficiently inform multiple SSAs withi

SUBMITTER: Noss RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292301 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature