Senator Announces Bill To Ban Invasive Species Imports
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., plans this month to introduce legislation to prevent the importation of invasive fish and wildlife into the U.S., she said (here). The bill would give the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service greater authority to ban non-native…
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species from being imported or sold in the U.S., including the temporary ability to make emergency designations for wildlife that “pose an imminent threat,” according to her office. The bill would also establish a risk-based process for “injurious species” designations, which block imports of those species unless FWS issues a license, but which now are listed only after troublesome fish and wildlife are introduced into this country.