POLITICS MOLEST MEXICAN WOLF SCIENCE
Improper Pressure to Lower Recovery Threshold for Wolf Numbers and Habitat Size
Fish and Wildlife Service
News Releases
TWO RARE FLORIDA PANTHER KILLED THIS WEEK; 11 SO FAR THIS YEAR
Latest Panther-on-Panther Deaths Reflect Shrinking Habitat for Territorial Cats
FEDERAL WILDLIFE AGENCY FLAYS JERSEY POMPTON LAKES PLAN
Fish & Wildlife Service Conditions Restructure Cleanup and Spur Damage Payments
MANATEE SAFEGUARD LIMITS UNDERMINE EFFECTIVENESS
Pending Kings Bay Manatee Refuge Long Overdue But May Be Too Little Too Late
FLORIDA PANTHERS DYING AT A RECORD RATE
Conservation Groups Launch Appeal to Win Critical Habitat for Endangered Cat
OFFICIAL ABETTING FLORIDA ECO-TRAIN WRECK GETS PROMOTED
Fish & Wildlife Service Gives “Litigation Magnet” National Endangered Species Slot
MAKE EMERGENCY MANATEE MEASURES STRONGER AND PERMANENT
115 Manatee Deaths So Far in 2011; Emergency Safeguards Lapse in Mid-March
FEDS DROP EFFORT TO SALVAGE BISON RANGE TRIBAL PACT
Refuge Has Not Rehired Staff After Tribal Funding Agreement Rescinded
FEDERAL AGENCIES FLYING BLIND IN CAPE WIND APPROVALS
Internal E-Mails Admit Huge Data Gaps, Inability to Monitor and Pursue Mitigation
FEDS ANNOUNCE EMERGENCY RULE TO PROTECT MANATEES
Expanded Manatee Refuge and Winter Limits on Boating, Swimming and Fishing
| White Papers |
|
Swan Dive — Trumpeter Swan Restoration Trumped by Politics (August 2001) Swan Dive traces how the declining prospects for the survival of Greater Yellowstone's trumpeter swans have intertwined with decisions by the agencies charged with ensuring their survival. Unfortunatley, these decisions have imperiled this last native nesting population of trumpeters in the lower 48 states. more >> |
|
Sitting Ducks — USFWS Assaults the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (June 1998) According to its own law enforcement personnel, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is bowing to intense political pressure to allow unethical hunting techniques, principally baiting, which they believe will facilitate detrimental over-harvesting of migratory game birds. The Special Agents are outraged by what they see as their agency's retreat from strong enforcement against hunting practices which contradict the principles of fair chase and damage the very resource whose survival makes recreational hunting possible. more >> |
|
Grizzly Science — Grizzly Bear Biology in the Greater Yellowstone (October 1997) Experts from various state and federal agencies chronicle the conflict between the practice of wildlife biology and the reality of bureaucratic politics within public resource agencies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Their professional experiences exhibit common problems of bureaucratic dysfunction, including suppression of science, falsification of information, and harassment of those working to ensure the survival of the grizzly bear. more >> |
|
Noah's Ark is Leaking — The Department of Interior Abandons International Species Protection (May 1997) The FWS has abandoned its legal obligation to protect international threatened and endangered species. There has been a decade-long de facto moratorium on the listing of foreign species. Commercial interests abuse the process by importing rare animals. more >> |
|
Tarnished Trophies — The Department of Interior's Wild Sheep Loophole (October 1996) According to its own specialists, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is driving protected foreign game species to extinction through the illegal issuance of permits to import game trophies. Despite mandates to enforce both the Endangered Species Act and international conservation treaties, the Assistant Directorate for International Affairs (AIA) within the Fish & Wildlife Service is promoting importation of sports-hunted trophies of threatened and, in some cases, endangered species. more >> |
| Surveys |
|
2005 Politics Trumps Science At U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
|
1998 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Law Enforcement Survey |
| Other PEER Activities |
|
Craig Manson for Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks |
|
PEER Campaign: Scientific Integrity |