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The denial of protection for the emperor penguin: Will it be overturned?
Background: No Protection for 'Happy Feet' Penguins
Emperor penguins Made Famous in the Award-Winning Movie Won't Be Considered 'Threatened' by U.S.
The federal government announced plans today to list several penguin species as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, but wildlife advocates say the protections do not go far enough.
The U.S. Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service identified the African penguin, yellow-eyed penguin, white-flippered penguin, Fiordland crested penguin, Humboldt penguin and erect-crested penguin as needing protection, along with a portion of the range of the southern rockhopper penguin.
The decision comes after several years of legal wrangling between the U.S. government and the Center for Biological Diversity, a wildlife advocacy group that had originally sought protection for a dozen penguin species because of the impacts of global warming and other environmental threats.
The government refused, however, to grant protections to several other species including the emperor penguin made famous in the films "March of the Penguins" and "Happy Feet."
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/GlobalWarming/story?id=6481594&page=1
The denial of protection for the emperor penguin ignores the science on global warming and ignores the law.
Will it be overturned by either the courts or the new administration?
Emperor penguins Made Famous in the Award-Winning Movie Won't Be Considered 'Threatened' by U.S.
The federal government announced plans today to list several penguin species as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, but wildlife advocates say the protections do not go far enough.
The U.S. Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service identified the African penguin, yellow-eyed penguin, white-flippered penguin, Fiordland crested penguin, Humboldt penguin and erect-crested penguin as needing protection, along with a portion of the range of the southern rockhopper penguin.
The decision comes after several years of legal wrangling between the U.S. government and the Center for Biological Diversity, a wildlife advocacy group that had originally sought protection for a dozen penguin species because of the impacts of global warming and other environmental threats.
The government refused, however, to grant protections to several other species including the emperor penguin made famous in the films "March of the Penguins" and "Happy Feet."
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/GlobalWarming/story?id=6481594&page=1
The denial of protection for the emperor penguin ignores the science on global warming and ignores the law.
Will it be overturned by either the courts or the new administration?
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
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Personally I think our illustrious current president figured since the emperors were in tuxes, and had just made a movie they didnt need any help
Debatable, of course, but so is the opposite viewpoint. I think 'foreseeable' is the key word -- as the capability of current climate models to predict long-term changes is in question. In my professional career I've built and utilized models of everything from groundwater flow to traffic networks to population dynamics, and any good modeler knows that you can almost always tweak the parameters to get results more to your liking.
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