Second request:
- Please Help NPCC Schedule National Conference Call in November
- Invitation - Nominate a Plant for National Endangered Species Report (due this week)
September 12, 2017
Dear NPCC Affiliate Leaders:
We still need your input for two important projects:
1. Would you like to hold another national native plant conservation conference call this November?
Please reply to this email to let me know if you would like to participate. If enough groups are interested, we will circulate a Doodle poll to schedule the call.
On our last conference call, Scott Black of the Xerces Society was our guest speaker. Please share any suggestions for guest speakers and topics for this next call.
2. The Endangered Species Coalition is accepting nominations for the 2017 America’s Top 10 Endangered Species report.
The report seeks to raise public awareness about the ongoing threats to endangered species and the Endangered Species Act.
As a member organization, the NPCC is eligible to nominate species for possible inclusion in the Top Ten report. The report will be sent to elected representatives and the media. It has generated positive news stories and policymaker actions in the past. Last year NPCC worked with native plant societies and others to nominate several plants. Our nominee with Wild Earth Guardians, the Joshua Tree, was included in the report.
If you are interested in nominating a species, please review the instructions and nominating form (links below) and let me know.
The submission deadline is September 15th, 2017.
Additional Information from the Endangered Species Coalition:
The 2017 report will highlight Top 10 species for which the best available science is not being followed.
Some examples of strategies that have been used by the Trump administration and members of Congress to subvert science when it comes to protecting species include:
- Field biologists are overruled in listing or other decisions by supervisors in order to prevent or lessen protections for species
- Policies that contradict recovery plans are implemented
- Necessary recovery actions are stopped or not implemented
- Species do not receive critical habitat designations and/or recovery plans
- Outdated models are used to lessen the appearance of threat
- Outdated maps are used to avoid overlap with areas of potential resource extraction or development
- Peer review participants are cherry-picked
- Funding for species recovery is limited, blocked, or eliminated
- Species decisions, such as listing or delisting are made by congress
