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.
October 17, 2023 Clinic Can Point Reyes National Seashore Support Wildlife and Ranching Amid Climate Change?
Echoing the Harvard lawsuit, a group of scientists—some of whom helped reintroduce the seashore’s first elk to the enclosure in 1978—has also criticized the Park Service’s management, which has allowed three other boom-and-bust cycles.
October 11, 2023 Clinic Will Florida manatees be listed as an endangered species again? Feds to review data.
This finding by the Fish and Wildlife Service is a crucial step in manatees’ road to recovery,” said Ben Rankin, who helped write the petition while at Harvard University’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic.