The Obama Administration is potentially tinkering with a key Endangered Species wildlife provision,,,,,,, ""Significant Portion Of iIs Range" (SPOIR),,,,,, which specifies that if a species is at risk of extinction in any significant portion of its historical range, it shall be protected"..........Center for Biological Divversity is seeking to keep the Administration from weakening this provision,,,,,,,,If it was to be watered down to be defined asa Species current day significant portion of its range versus a species historical significant portion of its range,,,,,, a very bad day for "Wild America" and our ability to protect and restore the endangered among us

Don't Let Obama Shut  Out Endangered Species Right now, the Obama administration  is acceptin comments on a draft policy  interpreting the phrase  "significant portion of its range" (SPOIR),  whichspecifies that if a species is at risk  of extinctionin any significant portion of  range, it shall be protected. This provision has played a key role in  the recovery of the bald eagle, grizzly  bear and many other iconic wildlife species, ensuring that animals and plants  receive protection before they're past the  point ofsaving by providing protection to species in important parts of their home ranges. The draft policy would limit species protection  in two ways. First, it proposes that a portion of  range would only be considered significant if loss  of the species from that portion would threaten the  species as a whole. This amounts to a regulatory  sleight-of-hand that would effectively eliminate the  SPOIR provision by making it largely synonymous  with a species being at risk in all of its range. Second, the policy says historic range will not be  considered when determining whether a species  is endangered in a significant portion of range. In effect, this calls for turning a blind eye to past losses of species, providing a perverse incentive  to delay determinations of species' status, so that  they may go extinct in various portions of their range,  which would then, in turn, no longer be considered for protection. Please tell the Obama administration to scrap this disastrous policy proposal and develop one that  will truly protect species when they are at risk in a significant portions of their range.