| 来源类型 | Popular Press
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Endangered Species Act Reforms Improve Incentives for Landowners to Recover Species |
| Jonathan Wood
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| 发表日期 | 2019-08-19
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | Although any change concerning this popular law generates understandable concern, many of these changes will benefit on-the-ground conservation by reducing conflict. |
| 正文 | Dusky Gopher Frog. ©U.S. Department of AgricultureThis week, the departments of the Interior and Commerce issued significant reforms to their implementation of the Endangered Species Act. Although any change concerning this popular law generates understandable concern, many of these changes will benefit on-the-ground conservation by reducing conflict between regulators, property owners, and conservationists in favor of greater cooperation.
The Endangered Species Act has an impressive record of preventing extinction; 99% of protected species are still with us. But, disappointingly, the law has failed to also spur species recovery. Less than 3% of listed species have achieved that goal.
The reason for the law’s mixed results is clear: It makes rare species a significant liability for landowners, rather than an asset. Consequently, landowners may preemptively destroy habitat to deter endangered species from moving in. They may also refuse to restore habitat on their property because of the regulatory burdens that would follow. Studies show that both have occurred. Since the greatest threat to most species is the lack of suitable habitat, these anti-conservation incentives are a significant obstacle to recovery.
Fortunately, some of the reforms will better align landowners’ incentives with the interests of rare species. For instance, they reverse a 2016 change that encouraged the designation of uninhabitable land as “critical habitat” — a practice that generated much conflict but little conservation.
Read this entire piece in the Salt Lake Tribune. |
| 主题 | Private Lands
; Wildlife
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| URL | https://www.perc.org/2019/08/19/endangered-species-act-reforms-improve-incentives-for-landowners-to-recover-species/
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| 来源智库 | Property and Environment Research Center (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/360152
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