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.
March 20, 2024 Program Devex Dish: Is it time for rich countries to reduce meat consumption?
But the greenhouse gas emissions from the global food system alone make it impossible to prevent a 1.5 C rise, according to an alarming new report from the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School.