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The Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus), one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear, is found in parts of Louisiana, mainly along the Mississippi River Valley and the Atchafalaya River Basin. It was classified as 'threatened' under the U.S. Endangered Species Act from 1992–2016.
The Louisiana black bear was removed from the Endangered Species List in 2016. ... It contends the bears still need the protection of the Endangered Species Act, saying the recovery corridors don ...
(The Center Square) — After years on the endangered species list, black bears will once again be hunted in Sportsman's Paradise. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry made the announcement during a news ...
The Louisiana black bear could soon be removed from the list of endangered animals. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is on the verge of formally initiating the process which takes about a year ...
The Louisiana bear hunting season has remained closed since 1988. From 1964 through 1967, 161 black bears were live-trapped in Cook County, Minnesota and released in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River bottoms of Louisiana in an effort to restock black bear to the state. By 1968 there was evidence that the translocated bears were reproducing.
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation", the ESA ...
Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge is located in the coastal towns of Franklin, Garden City and Centerville on Bayou Teche in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 9,028-acre (36.54 km 2) refuge is forested with bottomland hardwoods and cypress-gum forests. The refuge was established in St. Mary Parish in 2001.
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 ...