Source: FEEDSTUFFS, 9/18/20


This week, Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee chairman Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) introduced the Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2020 that will improve the existing law by strengthening state and local partnerships, incentivizing voluntary conservation efforts undertaken by ranchers and other land owners and defend the Endangered Species Act's (ESA) delisting process for animals that have successfully recovered and no longer need protection. Through these changes and with targeted increases for specific areas of the ESA, the bill will improve species conservation and address key failures in the act.

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