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Save Our Species Alliance Urges North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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."

More than 60 percent of the species listed in North Carolina have failed to achieve more than a quarter of their recovery goals. Almost half are listed as "unknown, declining or possibly extinct."

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. G.K. Butterfield, Bob Etheridge, Walter Jones, David Price, Virginia Foxx, Howard Coble, Mike McIntyre, Robin Hayes, Sue Myrick, Patrick McHenry, Charles Taylor, Melvin Watt, and Brad Miller.

http://www.usnewswire.com

Source: U.S. Newswire

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