Fwd: [FoA] Demanding a Future for the Last Indigenous US Parrots

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WildEarth

Guardians and Friends of Animals

Demand

a Future for the Last Indigenous

US Parrots

 

 

February 24, 2010

 

 

Photo:

Mark Watson

 

Friends of Animals joined WildEarth

Guardians in filing a ten-page Injunction and Complaint for a

Declaratory Judgment this month against Ken Salazar, U.S.

Secretary of the Interior, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESAâ€), 16

U.S.C. §§ 1531 et seq., and the

Administrative Procedure Act (“APAâ€), 5 U.S.C. §§

706(1) & 706(2)(A), to secure a recovery plan for Thick-billed

Parrots (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha).

Thick-billed Parrots, the sole

surviving U.S. indigenous parrots, were

constantly sought and captured during the 1970s and 80s for the caged

bird trade, and they have been listed as endangered under the ESA since the Act’s inception in 1973. Within two

and a half years of a final ESA listing, a

recovery plan is required. Yet in 36 years, the Secretary has developed

no recovery plan for these birds. A search of the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service’s “Recovery Online Activity Reporting Systemâ€

for these birds returns no results.

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