Will the USFWS Decide on 757 Endangered Species?

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is developing a new agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to decide on 757 imperiled plant and animal species they've been stonewalling on for years, many of which are running out of time. The Good Human reports on the deal:

The agreement in question forces the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to make initial or final decisions on whether to grant some 757 imperiled plant and animal species protection under the Endangered Species Act over the next six years. In exchange, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), a leading advocacy group devoted to animal and plant conservation, will withdraw its legal opposition to a May 2011 agreement between USFWS and another conservation group, Wildlife Guardians. CBD argued that the agreement with Wildlife Guardians was too weak, unenforceable and missing key species in need of protection. The new agreement, if approved by the U.S. District Court as submitted in July 2011, would make many of the provisions of the old agreement obsolete.

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