Habitat Conservation Plans Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: The Legal Perspective

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. S7-S13 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID E. MOSER
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Endangered Species Act ◽  
Habitat Conservation ◽  
Habitat Conservation Plans ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Conservation Plans ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals A Database of Habitat Conservation Plans and Related Documents Developed Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Carter ◽  
Jacob Malcom ◽  
Heather Harl
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Endangered Species Act ◽  
Habitat Conservation ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Data Resource ◽  
Habitat Conservation Plan ◽  
Threatened And Endangered Species ◽  
Conservation Plan ◽  
Conservation Plans ◽  
The U.S

Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, non-federal parties may be permitted to “take,” or harm, listed threatened and endangered species provided they develop an appropriate “habitat conservation plan” that details how the applicant will minimize and mitigate the impacts of their activities on the species at issue. Despite widespread use of such plans, with more than 700 approved to date, there have been few systematic analyses to determine their effectiveness in protecting imperiled wildlife. This has been driven by a lack of a centralized repository of essential habitat conservation plan documents, from the plans themselves to required monitoring reports. Here we present a new data resource of 6,290 documents related to 601 separate HCPs, assembled through a United States Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, supplemented by web scraping of available HCP documents online. We describe the completeness of responses, characterize the scope of documents, and identify data and research gaps.

scholarly journals The Scientific Foundations of Habitat Conservation Plans: a Quantitative Assessment

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 488-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine K. Harding ◽  
Elizabeth E. Crone ◽  
Bret D. Elderd ◽  
Jonathan M. Hoekstra ◽  
Alexa J. McKerrow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Habitat Conservation ◽  
Habitat Conservation Plans ◽  
Conservation Plans

scholarly journals Extinction and the U.S. Endangered Species Act

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Greenwald ◽  
Kieran F Suckling ◽  
Brett Hartl ◽  
Loyal Mehrhoff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Endangered Species Act ◽  
The United States ◽  
Species Extinction ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Species Extinctions

The United States Endangered Species Act is one of the strongest laws of any nation for preventing species extinction, but quantifying the Act’s effectiveness has proven difficult. To provide one measure of effectiveness, we identified listed species that have gone extinct and used previously developed methods to update an estimate of the number of species extinctions prevented by the Act. To date, only four species have been confirmed extinct with another 22 possibly extinct following protection. Another 71 listed species are extinct or possibly extinct, but were last seen before protections were enacted, meaning the Act’s protections never had the opportunity to save these species. In contrast, a total of 39 species have been fully recovered, including 23 in the last 10 years. We estimate the Endangered Species Act has prevented the extinction of roughly 291 species since passage in 1973, and has to date saved more than 99 percent of species under its protection.

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