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Can Fido be regulated under the Endangered Species Act?

January 27, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD

Last week, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced its intention to grant a petition to regulate Lolita — an orca whale that has lived at Miami’s Seaquarium for more than 40 years — under the Endangered Species Act. As PLF’s Liberty Blog previously reported, PETA petitioned to have Lolita regulated under the act with ...

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Don't let Lolita pervert the Endangered Species Act

May 06, 2013 | By JONATHAN WOOD

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to include Lolita – a killer whale and the biggest attraction at Miami’s Seaquarium for more than 40 years – as a member of the Southern Resident killer whale population under the Endangered Species Act.  This population is al ...

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Wolverine proposed for listing

February 07, 2013 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Earlier this week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing a distinct population segment of the North American wolverine as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.  The Service contends that the proposed listing should not bode ill for recreational and productive uses of land where the wolverine is located, beca ...

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Setting the killer whale record straight, yet again

December 10, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Over at the Seattle PI blog, Howard Garrett of the Orca Network criticizes PLF’s petition to delist the Southern Resident population of orca whale from the Endangered Species Act.  Unfortunately, Mr. Garrett’s criticisms, like those of many others, are either irrelevant or innacurate. … ...

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Setting the killer whale record straight, part II

December 07, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Earlier this week, Miyoko Sakashita of the Center for Biological Diversity, writing on the Huffington Post, criticized Pacific Legal Foundation’s effort to delist the Southern Resident population of killer whale from the Endangered Species Act.  Of course, this is not CBD’s first criticism of our delisting petition.  But, as you� ...

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A whale of a win

November 26, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it is beginning a one-year review to determine whether to delist the Southern Resident population of killer whale from the Endangered Species Act.  The agency’s decision is in direct response to a delisting petition submitted by Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of the Center for E ...

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Setting the killer whale record straight

August 03, 2012 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

We’ve had quite a lot of press in connection with our delisting petition, filed yesterday, for the killer whale:  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, Capital Press, NPR, McClatchey Newspapers, among others.  (I was somewhat amused when the Center for Biological Diversity issued a press release criticizing the petition and labelling u ...