Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection

Today is D-Day for the pygmy owl, more than nine years after it was listed as endangered by the federal government……

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…

The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ….

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.

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.

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…

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….

The federal government plans to remove the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl from the endangered species list next month, but one local conservation group has vowed to fight the move.

The federal government will announce this afternoon that it is taking the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl off the endangered species list…

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