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An environmentally beneficial species native to Kentucky was one of 21 species recently delisted. ... Several dozen of those species are also listed federally as threatened or endangered under the ...
The northern cavefish was under consideration for listing under the Endangered Species Act, however, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found in 2023 that despite the loss of two metapopulations of A. spelaea, listing was not warranted, as the four metapopulations that still exist had sufficient redundancy of subpopulations to mitigate threats. [3]
The Kentucky cave shrimp was registered as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act in 1983, [3] and was included on the IUCN Red List as Endangered in 1994. [1] There are currently only several thousand remaining. It is mostly threatened by contaminated groundwater running into its habitat. [2]
The Big Sandy crayfish is listed as threatened wherever found under the ESA. [2] It was originally reviewed for listing in 1991 when it was known as C. veteranus. The crayfish was proposed to be listed as endangered with C. veteranus on 7 April 2015, which is when the two new species were distinguished in the ESA (ECOS 12 month finding). [6]
The species — several birds, mussels, two species of fish and the Little Mariana fruit bat last seen in Guam in 1968 — have been listed as endangered for decades, according to the U.S. Fish ...
Others have already taken steps to recover the pink mucket. The state of Kentucky, where the pink mucket is endangered, has created the Kentucky’s Wildlife Action Plan. This plan was developed by the state to help create priority conservation actions for the aquatic and wildlife that have become threatened and endangered species. [6]
The listing under the Endangered Species Act reverses a 2020 Trump administration determination that such a classification was unwarranted, leading to a federal court ruling in Montana last year ...
The agency's primary focus is protecting rare and endangered species habitats. [2] It oversees a statewide program of nature preserves, the Kentucky Wild Rivers Program, and the "Nature's Finest" license plate program of the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund Board. The program was formerly known as the "Kentucky State Nature Preserves ...