An excerpt from GREENLines today:

"Candidate for federal protection list, a designation that can stall further
consideration for a decade."

According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the Endangered Species Act
'candidate list' is a "legal limbo where they get no protection" and that
"at least 34 species have become extinct while waiting for protection."
This Bush administration has listed [as protected on the ESA list] only 24
species so far, compared to 211 species in the first two years of the
Clinton administration and 80 species during a similar period in the first
Bush administration.

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