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Save Our Species Alliance Urges Tennessee Delegation to Support Species Recovery Act

Posted on: Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 15:00 CDT

GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Save Our Species Alliance (SOSA) urged the Tennessee Congressional delegation today to support TESRA, the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005. The bill, likely to be considered by the House of Representatives this week, will update the 31 year-old species conservation law.

"After over three decades of implementation the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has recovered 10 of roughly 1300 listed species nationwide," said Tim Wigley, Director of SOSA. "The current law is just not working. TESRA is an innovative approach with bipartisan support that will turn the conflict under ESA into cooperation and refocus the law on actually recovering species. We can and must do better."

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service more than 75 percent of the species listed in Tennessee have achieved less than a quarter of their recovery goals. Likewise, more than half of the species in Tennessee are considered as "unknown, declining or possibly extinct." The ESA is failing to recover species in Tennessee and is increasingly driven by litigation and court actions, not science.

TESRA will fix the ESA by focusing the law on species recovery, providing incentives to property owners to aid species recovery, strengthening scientific standards and creating bigger roles for state and local governments.

The Save Our Species Alliance (SOSA) urges the following Representatives to vote "yes" on TESRA: Reps. William Jenkins, John Duncan, Zach Wamp, Lincoln Davis, Jim Cooper, Bart Gordon, Marsha Blackburn, John Tanner, and Harold Ford, Jr.

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Source: U.S. Newswire

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