March 22, 2024 Clinic SEA COWS — Groups threaten to sue feds over manatee classification
Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic in a letter told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups intend to sue over the agency’s failure to respond to a November 2022 petition to reclassify manatees as endangered under federal law.
March 21, 2024 Clinic Wildlife advocates threaten lawsuit to get Florida manatees reclassified as an endangered species
The Center for Biological Diversity, the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Miami Waterkeeper, the Save the Manatee Club and Frank S. González García said in Thursday’s filing that federal officials did not comply with a requirement to provide findings within 12 months of the petition about whether reclassification was warranted.
March 21, 2024 Clinic Environmental groups ready a lawsuit to declare manatees an endangered species
The parties to the lawsuit include The Center for Biological Diversity, the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Miami Waterkeeper, the Save the Manatee Club and Frank S. González García.
March 21, 2024 Clinic Lawsuit launched over federal failure to protect manatees in Florida, Puerto Rico
“We are hopeful that, given the many threats to the West Indian manatee, including seagrass loss and the impending loss of warm water refugia, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will quickly issue a finding, as required under the Endangered Species Act,” said Sophia Pereira, a student attorney at Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic.