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Hearing date set for effort to halt species ‘delisting’
PHOENIX — The pygmy owl will stay "delisted" at least until June 2, a federal judge decided Monday. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton declined environmentalists’ requests to put a temporary hold on the federal government’s mid-April decision to remove the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl from the endangered-species list…
Owl’s delisting today opens builders’ horizons
Today is D-Day for the pygmy owl, more than nine years after it was listed as endangered by the federal government……
Tiny owl will stay delisted at least until hearing in June
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A judge has declined environmentalists’ requests to put a temporary hold on the federal government’s decision to remove the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl from the endangered-species list…
Groups file suit to stop pygmy owl’s delisting
The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ….
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The cactus ferruginous pygmy owl is on the verge of losing its status as an endangered species.
The removal from the endangered species list is scheduled to take place May 15, unless the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision is overruled in court.
Enviros ready to sue over pygmy owl action
Arizona Daily Star Tucson, A coalition of environmental groups says it will sue the federal government to restore the pygmy owl’s endangered status unless the government decides within a week to do that on its own.
Groups Challenge Decision to Drop Protection for Few Remaining Pygmy-owls
Tucson, AZ –Defenders of Wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Arizona Audubon Council, representing all eight Audubon chapters in the state, today filed an official notice of intent to sue the US Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision to remove the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl…
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Pygmy owl’s delisting has little effect on Marana
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week announced its intentions to remove the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl from the federal Endangered Species Act. The owl no longer will have protection under that act, effective May 15. It will still have protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which prohibits killing the owls and possessing their feathers or eggs….