Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent
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《纽约时报》报道，美国鱼类和野生动物管理局内部备忘录指示 staff 重新解释《濒危物种法》，将“伤害”限定为“明确意图针对某动物”的行为。局长Brian Nesvik在9月14日备忘录中举例称，船只无意撞鲸、砍树未以杀蝙蝠为目的，均不构成“获取”。此举令保护人士意外，被认为源自1995年Scalia异议思路，可能削弱对可预防死亡和栖息地破坏的监管。
Last week, The New York Times reported that an internal memo had been quietly distributed across US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) field offices, directing staff to radically reinterpret the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in a move that blindsided conservationists.
Staffers were essentially asked to start looking the other way when private interests cause preventable deaths of vulnerable animals. Instead of prohibiting habitat modifications that injure animals or cause accidental deaths, the ESA will now only prohibit actions “specifically intending to target an animal,” FWS Director Brian Nesvik instructed staff in the September 14 memo.
“A vessel that inadvertently strikes a whale has not taken it because the vessel’s course was not set against the whale,” Nesvik’s memo said. “Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.”
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