The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that it will conduct an in-depth review on whether to add giraffes to the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act
, but went on for two years. Conservation groups filed a lawsuit in December over the delay.
A spokeswoman for the Fish and Wildlife Service said the lawsuit did not affect the timing of the decision.until December 31, 2020. "The service uses the best available science to make listing decisions and the review will not be issued until after the comment period closes," she said.the US Fish and Wildlife Service will write restrictions"One of the goals for the Endangered Species Act, if something is threatened with extinction, we want to cut off market demand for that species," said Tanya Sanerib, the international legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity, who helped write the petition.
The United States imported 3,744 giraffe trophies between 2006 and 2015, according to government data cited in the petition. Almost 40,000 giraffe specimens were imported during that time, including 21,400 bone carvings, 4,789 bones and 1,903 bone pieces, 3,008 skin pieces and 855 skins and jewelry, leather goods and other products."There's a big concern that it's becoming the new ivory," she said."Giraffes are being coveted for meat.
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