Description: Lawsuit to compel a response to a 2022 petition requesting the list of the ghost orchid as endangered or threatened.
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Institute for Regional Conservation v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 09/13/2023 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Environmental Organizations Sought Decision on Petition to Protect Climate Change-Threatened Ghost Orchid Under Endangered Species Act. The Institute for Regional Conservation and two other organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Southern District of Florida seeking to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make a decision regarding the organizations’ 2022 petition to list the ghost orchid as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The organizations alleged that the ghost orchid faces many threats, including “poaching and modifications to its habitat due to hydrological changes, wildfires, sea level rise, and severe storms and hurricanes.”