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An environmentally beneficial species native to Kentucky was one of 21 species recently delisted. ... The USFWS is tasked with maintaining an endangered species list, as well as determining when a ...
It is endemic to Kentucky, where it occurs only in the drainage of the Bayou de Chien. [5] It is a federally listed threatened species of the United States. [2] [4] The relict darter is part of the Etheostoma squamiceps species complex and was formally described in 1992.
This is a list of the bird and mammal species and subspecies described as endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It contains species and subspecies not only in the U.S. and its territories, but also those only found in other parts of the world. It does not include endangered fish, amphibians, reptiles, plants, or invertebrates.
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]
As the numbers of the formerly endangered bald eagle have grown in Indiana and Kentucky, a new threat to its survival is becoming more apparent. Endangered species list no longer includes bald eagles.
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 ...
The arrow darter is not on the endangered species list yet, but it has been wiped out from more than half of its regions. Protecting the species and the habitat it lives in will protect the drinking water for humans by preserving headwater streams. Polluted streams from coal runoff has been linked to increases of cancer and birth defects in humans.
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]