Court Petition to Delist Pacific Northwest Orca from the Endangered Species Act

Property rights advocates and California farmers filed a petition within the last couple of weeks asking the U.S. government to delist Pacific Northwest orca (the Puget Sound orca) from the Endangered Species Act. They are arguing the group of whales is not a distinct population segment of a subspecies but in fact, only a species. They have already lost this argument during a previous appeal. 

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