The US Fish and Wildlife Service did not serve lions well A number of conservation organizations submitted a proposal to the US Government on the 1st March 2011 for the US Fish and Wildlife Service to consider African lions as an endangered species, thereby preventing all further lion product imports into the USA. Of course, the biggest “lion product import” is lion trophies that US citizens are highly engaged in collecting all over Africa. Progress of the petition was glacial. In November 2012 (20 months later) the USFWS said the proposal “had merit” and called for further deliberations. On 27th November 2014 the USFWS announced that they proposed a listing of “threatened” for African lions and would require another 90 day period for public submissions to proceed to actually have African lions listed as such. It took the USFWS about 45 months to come to this conclusion, and now another 3 months to evaluate and probably another 6 months to finalize. Where did it all go so wrong? Click below to read how we would evaluate this:
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:59:40 +0000
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