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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Groups file suit over government attempt to remove whale protections

According to a press release, Defenders of Wildlife and the Humane Society of the United States sued the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) over its decision to roll back protections for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, humpbacks, and fin whales.

I'd previously posted about the proposed changes here.

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