ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY

• Press Release on the Commemoration of Endangered Species Day http://www.nysba.org/Content/NavigationMenu45/EndangeredSpeciesDay/EndangeredSpeciesDay2011Release.5.20.11.pdf

• To kick off the Committee’s commemoration of Endangered Species Day, the Committee hosted an informative teleseminar with Michael J. Bean, Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior.

> “Hot Topics Involving Endangered Species and Other Federally Protected Species” Recording:  https://www.box.net/shared/8oo7zuhnvk.

> Summary of call (including Bean bio) http://www.nysba.org/Content/NavigationMenu45/EndangeredSpeciesDay/MichaelJBeanTeleseminarSummary.5.11.115.18.rev.pdf

• In honor of Endangered Species Day, the Committee published an article (by Allie Diamond and Ashlee Cartwright), “The Past, Present and Future of the Endangered Species Act,” in Electronically In Touch, the monthly e-newsletter of the NYSBA Young Lawyers Section.

> http://www.nysba.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=49860&TEMPLATE=/CM/HTMLDISPLAY.CFM.

• Relevant Articles and Papers

• The winner of the Committee’s Second Annual National Animal Law Student Writing Competition, Allison L. Westfahl Kong’s article on the Distinct Population Segment Policy used by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service was published in the New York University Law Review.  It can be found at: http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv3/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__journals__law_review/documents/documents/ecm_pro_065478.pdf.

• The winner of the Committee’s First Annual National Animal Law Student Writing Competition Laurel McNeill’s article, “Giant Steps: The African Elephant and The United States’ Effect on the Survival of the Species,”  and “Understanding ‘CITES’: The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species,” by Kris M. McConville, which can be found in the October 2009 edition of the Committee’s Official Publication, Laws & Paws, at: http://www.nysba.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Laws_and_Paws&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=32646.

• The Committee has published a new entry on its Animal Law Blog, entitled “Happy Endangered Species Day” http://nysbar.com/blogs/animalaw/
 

• Additional Resources

> Endangered Species Act: http://epw.senate.gov/esa73.pdf.

> United States Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program website: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/.

> New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Endangered Species website: http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7181.html.

> Please see Felicity Barringer's, "U.S. Reaches a Settlement on Decisions About Endangered Species", The New York Times, May 10, 2011, at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/earth/11species.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=endangered%20species&st=cse.

> To read more about the delisting of the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves, please see the reissuance of the Final Rule in the Federal Register at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-05-05/html/2011-10860.htm.

> You can also find more information about Endangered Species Day, including fun activities for children, at: the United States Fish & Wildlife website: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/ESDay/2011.html and the Endangered Species Coalition website: http://www.stopextinction.org/esd.html.