Date: 10/24/26 11:37 am From: Peter Saracino <petersaracino...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Reminder: ✨ WEBINAR: What the Endangered Species Act Rollbacks Mean for Whooping Cranes
For our consideration.
P.S. If not us, then who?
Sar
"To know is not all; it is only half. To love is the other half".
- John Burroughs
" The Art Of Seeing Things"
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From: International Crane Foundation <sgm...>
Date: Sat, Oct 24, 2026, 1:16 PM
Subject: Reminder: ✨ WEBINAR: What the Endangered Species Act Rollbacks
Mean for Whooping Cranes
To: <petersaracino...>
For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been one of
the nation’s most effective tools for bringing wildlife back from the
brink, and the Whooping Crane is among its clearest success stories. Now,
sweeping changes under the Trump Administration are reshaping how the law
works.
Join Hardy Kern, Director of Government Relations at American Bird
Conservancy, and Dr. Andy Caven, Director of Central Flyway Programs at the
International Crane Foundation, for a look at where the ESA stands today
and what’s at stake.
Hardy will cover the policy landscape, including the administration’s
regulatory changes and the legal challenges now underway. Andy will then
focus on a tangible consequence: the rescission of the ESA’s regulatory
definition of “harm,” which removed habitat destruction as a form of
prohibited take. That change undermines the foundation of Habitat
Conservation Plans and much of Section 10 of the Act, which have long
brought private landowners and industry to the table to protect habitat.
Andy will explain why this matters for the cranes that depend on wetlands
and river habitat along the Central Flyway, and what conservationists can
do next.
This webinar is brought to you by the International Crane Foundation and
the American Bird Conservancy.
