
Rule Docket Number FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0029
- If the blanket rule is removed, it will deprive newly listed threatened animal and plant species from automatically receiving protections from killing, trapping, and other forms of prohibited “take.” Species now proposed for listing, like the Florida manatee, California spotted owl, Greater sage grouse, and Monarch butterfly, could be left unprotected for years even after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes the listings.
- I urge you to withdraw this proposal. Delaying protections for “threatened” species leaves them vulnerable to becoming endangered.