Bush Administration Fails to Protect Endangered Species

Source: "Since '01, Guarding Species Is Harder: Endangered Listings Drop Under Bush" by Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, March 23, 2008.

Lead: "With little-noticed procedural and policy moves over several years, Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to designate domestic animals and plants for protection under the Endangered Species Act."

"During Bush's more than seven years as president, his administration has placed 59 domestic species on the endangered list.....Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton added an average of 58 and 62 species to the list each year, respectively.