What protection does the California red-legged frog receive as a listed species?
A. The ESA makes “take” illegal – forbidding the killing, harming, harassing, possessing or removing of protected animals from the wild, including their habitat. Those protections apply to a listed species wherever it occurs, without consideration of whether it is an area of designated critical habitat or not, and they apply to all parties, public or private. Designation of critical habitat adds a requirement that Federal agencies must consult with the Service to ensure that projects they authorize, fund or carry out are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered or threatened species, or result in the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical habitat. Q. What is being done to save the California red-legged frog? A. Recovery planning for this species began shortly after the 1996 listing. Species experts, state and Federal agency representatives, and stakeholders representing a variety of interests developed a comprehensive plan to recover the sp
