Look for groups Lizard protection of the sand dune
Albuquerque, NM (AP) - A conservation group is demanding an emergency listing under the Endangered Species Act for a lizard that in the remotest parts of New Mexico and Texas.
Wild Earth Guardian argues in a petition filed Thursday with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC, while the lizard is on the list of endangered species could be a year of the Agency before deciding whether Confederation reptiles warrants protection.
“Every month that passes without ESA protection for sand dune lizard, such thinking, corner of the cliff and bringing it closer to extinction,” the group’s petition said.
The group plans to commence, if the Agency has not, within 60 days.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has received the request and plans to respond to a letter, “said Elizabeth Slown, a spokesman for the agency for the south-west.
Slown said the funding was awarded this year to conduct investigations and other research to determine if the lizard should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The process usually takes about a year.
“We are concerned about the sand dune lizard for a while,” said Thursday Slown. “It is on the list, and we are working with landowners in the region, so that they know what the sand dune lizard, and a list of urgency of the request at this stage is unnecessary and keeps us, the process we have been through the process. ”
The lizard, life in the sand and dunes in south-east shinnery oak New Mexico and southwestern Texas, is a candidate for the protection of endangered species since 2001. In February, Fish and medicine wildlife director Dale said Hall was one of dozens of species drawn from the agency during the annual review.
But Nicole Rosmarino, wildlife, program director for Wild Earth Guardians, said Thursday geschmachtet have many types on the list for the year.
Rosmarino argues that the list is urgently needed, because the mounting threats to the lizard, as overcoming rapidly toward extinction. ”
In the petition, Wild Earth Guardian says that a quarter of 587632 hectares of bandwidth provided for the sand dune lizard in the New Mexico has a density of about 13 or more oil and gas per square mile hole . It was in the group said, could lead to substantial reductions lizard population of more than 25 percent.
The petition said oil and gas development in the Mescalero Sands - described as the heart of the lizard’s range - could fragment of a New Mexico’s largest population of lizard. It also refers to herbicides that destroy shinnery oak, indicating that the loss of the plant could contribute to a significant decrease in the population lizard.
Rosmarino said the lizard spectrum in New Mexico and Texas is small and begin studies have shown a lack of reptiles, fourth places, as a general rule, be found.
“The scientific predictions of more than 10 years, it may be too late to save it from extinction,” said Rosmarino. “We believe it deserves the assurance of the Endangered Species Act and protection it deserves, that the protection quickly. “
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