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Support Endangered Species Status for Jamaican Kite Swallowtail

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Jamaican Kite Swallowtail

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ESA Wildlife

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the Jamaican kite swallowtail butterfly as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal is based on a review of available scientific data and would extend federal ESA protections to this Jamaican butterfly species. It's a proposed rule, so it's still open to public comment before becoming final.

In the agency’s own words

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to list the Jamaican kite swallowtail (Eurytides marcellinus), a butterfly species from Jamaica, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). After a review of the best scientific and commercial data available, we find that listing the species is warranted. If we finalize this rule as proposed, it would add this species to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and extend the Act's protections to the species.

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