New York Times: NJ bird among species needing endangered protections


Black Rail Chick.
Photo credit: nature.berkeley.edu

The Eastern black rail, a species found in New Jersey and along the Eastern Seaboard, is one of the freshwater species needing Endangered Species Act protection, but not getting it.  

Far west of here, in February the Pacific walrus was declared by the Obama administration to be at risk of extinction because its Arctic habitat was melting. But the administration declined to list the marine mammal as an endangered species, saying a backlog of other animals faced greater peril.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 4/21/2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: eastern black rail pacific walrus endangered species center for biological diversity
 

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