The tiny raptor lost protection 17 years ago due to a lawsuit from home builders. Lawsuits from environmental groups helped restore protections.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday it would list the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl as a threatened subspecies. The decision comes after nearly 17 years of legal battles to restore protection for the bird.
In the last century, it fully disappeared from areas of Arizona and Texas that used to be part of its original territory, mainly due to urbanization. By 1997, biologists counted only 35 individual birds in Arizona. Greenwald added that the federal agency is"badly broken" and needs new leadership to get back to"efficiently protecting species and addressing the extinction crisis.”Despite the loss of federal protection, efforts to protect the population of pygmy-owls in Arizona has continued.
With these plans, the listing of the pygmy-owl as threatened"will not result in land-use battles like those of the 1990s and early 2000s," Grijalva added.
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