US wildlife agency agrees to review protection for habitats after conservationists sue over mass die-offs from poor water quality
, agreed earlier this month, the FWS must publish proposed revisions of critical habitat protections for the manatees by September 2024.
“The manatee has a long road to recovery, but ensuring the safety of its home is a vital step in that direction,” said Ragan Whitlock, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. The same environmental organisations, with the environmental law nonprofit Earthjustice, are also trying to force the US Environmental Protection Agency to act. In May, theyagainst the EPA, claiming that the agency has “abandoned manatees to Florida’s inadequate water-quality measures”.
High levels of water pollution create algal blooms that have killed tens of thousands of hectares of seagrass, on which manatees depend.they were not likely to “adversely affect” manatees. But the lawsuit argues the mass die-off in the Indian River Lagoon shows that these standards are insufficient to rein in pollution, and demands the EPA reassess them.
Earthjustice attorney, Elizabeth Forsyth, said: “The EPA is ultimately the backstop federal agency that is in charge of ensuring that manatees and other species survive in our nation’s water, but also ensuring that our water pollution control regulations are adequate to protect manatees and other species.”
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