Where is the list of endangered species published?
Under the Act, “the term endangered species means any species which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range other than a species of the Class Insecta determined by the Secretary (of the Interior) to constitute a pest whose protection under the provisions of this Act would present an overwhelming and overriding risk to man. A threatened species means any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.” “Candidate” species are those species for which US FWS has enough data to warrant proposing for threatened or endangered status, but other considerations (usually financial) have prevented the agency from implementing its own recommendations. US FWS has recently attempted a “bottom-up” approach to candidate species protection, forging alliances with private landowners and local governments to protect adequate habitat in an effort to ward off the need for list
