ENVIRONMENTAL legislation passed by the US house of representatives last week will have dire consequences for endangered species. It shifts the balance away from protecting them in favour of giving private landowners more rights to do as they please, conservationists say.
The Endangered Species Act, passed in 1973, was a pioneering piece of environmental legislation
But now the Act's critics are using what they portray as its disappointing track record to attack it. Of the more than 1300 species ...
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