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Without a Net-About the Report |
The Endangered Species Coalition is a membership organization with more than 400 conservation, scientific, faith, fishing, sportsmen, business, and community groups. These organizations have a deep and thorough understanding of the species and habitats that they work to protect. As a result when compiling this report, we turned to them. The Endangered Species Coalition issued a call for nominations from our member organizations for species that should be placed on the endangered species list.
We received nominations for more than 60 species. (Please see the list of additional nominated species on page 16). We then gathered together key scientific and policy experts on endangered species protections to judge the nominations.
In the end, choosing ten species was impossible. Therefore, we have ten species plus three honorable mentions. We considered factors such as remaining population size, immediacy of the threat, indicator species status, and greatest potential to benefit from being placed on the list. In truth, each of the submissions deserved to be on the endangered species list. As such, we chose ten plus three species here that can serve as ambassadors for all of the candidate species and other species in need. The stories of the species detailed in this report are a good reflection of the challenges the wildlife, plants and fish on the brink of extinction are facing today.
Though the judges’ assistance has been invaluable with creating this report, the policy conclusions discussed below do not necessarily reflect the judges’ opinions. These conclusions were developed through other Coalition processes and meant to represent here only the view of the Endangered Species Coalition.
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