Hawaii extinctions highest
Almost half of the 114 species that have become
extinct in the first 20 years of the federal Endangered Species Act were in
Hawai'i, according to a new report
by the Center for Biological Diversity. The report says the federal
government's failure to protect species "has been spectacular," and accuses the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of knowingly delaying listings "to avoid
political controversy even when it knew the likely result would be the
extinction of the species." There's an
article
in the
Star-Bulletin
and an article
in the
Advertiser.The
52 extinct species from the Hawaiian Islands since 1973
include: - 15 types of terrestrial
snails - 13 types of flowering
plants - 8 types of
birds - 13 types of
insects - 3 types of moths
Posted: Sat
- April 24, 2004 at 09:13 AM