{"id":19993,"date":"2019-09-05T20:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/?p=19993"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:42:46","slug":"wildlife-advocates-fight-force-feds-protect-sonoran-desert-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/es\/wildlife-advocates-fight-force-feds-protect-sonoran-desert-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Los defensores de la vida silvestre luchan para obligar a los federales a proteger a la tortuga del desierto de Sonora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoy, los defensores de la vida silvestre <a href=\"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019.08.05-Sonoran-Desert-Tortoise-Complaint-Stamped.pdf\">desafiado<\/a> la negaci\u00f3n del gobierno federal de las protecciones de la Ley de Especies en Peligro de Extinci\u00f3n (ESA, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s) para la tortuga del desierto de Sonora en un tribunal federal<em>.<\/em> WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project, representado por Western Environmental Law Center, impugn\u00f3 la decisi\u00f3n del Servicio de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de EE. UU. (Servicio) porque la agencia no consider\u00f3 la ciencia sobre el cambio clim\u00e1tico y el pastoreo de ganado, entre otros factores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa ley no permite que la agencia asuma que la especie est\u00e1 bien bas\u00e1ndose en la ausencia de datos\u201d, dijo Matthew Bishop, abogado del Western Environmental Law Center que representa a los grupos. \u201cLa agencia debe ser avanzada en su pensamiento y aplicar la mejor ciencia disponible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>La tortuga del desierto de Sonora es una especie distinta de tortuga del desierto reconocida recientemente, separada de la tortuga del desierto de Mojave. Las tortugas del desierto de Sonora se encuentran en h\u00e1bitats de matorrales des\u00e9rticos en Arizona y M\u00e9xico, al este y al sur del r\u00edo Colorado. En 2010, en respuesta a una petici\u00f3n de los grupos para incluir la especie en la lista de la ESA, el Servicio consider\u00f3 que estaba &quot;justificada&quot; para incluirla en la lista, pero la coloc\u00f3 en la lista de candidatos, sin protecciones, debido a &quot;prioridades m\u00e1s altas&quot;. En 2015, el Servicio revoc\u00f3 su decisi\u00f3n y determin\u00f3 que la especie \u201cno justificada\u201d para la lista bas\u00e1ndose principalmente en un acuerdo de conservaci\u00f3n candidato que no incluye compromisos vinculantes de las partes involucradas para tomar medidas de conservaci\u00f3n, ni ning\u00fan requisito reglamentario para conservar la tortuga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstos animales \u00fanicos del desierto necesitan protecci\u00f3n legal para escapar de la extinci\u00f3n\u201d, dijo Taylor Jones, defensora de especies en peligro de extinci\u00f3n de WildEarth Guardians. \u201cLlevamos al gobierno a los tribunales porque no consideraron la mejor ciencia disponible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDurante cinco a\u00f1os, el Servicio de Pesca y Vida Silvestre reconoci\u00f3 el grave peligro de extinci\u00f3n que enfrenta la tortuga del desierto de Sonora\u201d, dijo Cyndi Tuell, Directora del Proyecto de Cuencas Hidrogr\u00e1ficas del Oeste de Arizona y Nuevo M\u00e9xico. \u201cEl cambio radical de la agencia en 2015, al decidir que de repente esta especie va a estar bien a pesar de las crecientes amenazas para las tortugas y su h\u00e1bitat, es la definici\u00f3n de arbitrario y caprichoso. La negaci\u00f3n de protecciones por parte del Servicio condenar\u00e1 a la tortuga y, por lo tanto, debemos responsabilizar a la agencia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Los grupos buscan la implementaci\u00f3n completa y rigurosa de la ESA, una de las leyes de conservaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s exitosas del mundo. La ley es especialmente importante como defensa contra la actual crisis de extinci\u00f3n. Las especies est\u00e1n desapareciendo a un ritmo mucho mayor que el ritmo natural de extinci\u00f3n debido a las actividades humanas, lo que resulta en lo que algunos cient\u00edficos llaman un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/11\/climate\/mass-extinction-animal-species.html\">\u201caniquilaci\u00f3n biol\u00f3gica\u201d.<\/a> De acuerdo a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/global-assessment-report-biodiversity-ecosystem-services\">un informe reciente de las Naciones Unidas,<\/a> m\u00e1s de un mill\u00f3n de especies est\u00e1n actualmente en peligro de extinci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>La demanda pide al tribunal que anule la decisi\u00f3n de la agencia y garantice el cumplimiento de la ESA. \u201cSimplemente le estamos pidiendo a esta agencia federal que haga su trabajo: proteja a las especies al borde de la extinci\u00f3n de las amenazas cada vez mayores causadas por el cambio clim\u00e1tico, el aumento de la urbanizaci\u00f3n y la militarizaci\u00f3n de la frontera\u201d, dijo Tuell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contactos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt Bishop, Centro de Derecho Ambiental Occidental, 406-324-8011, <a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x62;&#x69;&#x73;&#x68;&#x6f;&#x70;&#x40;&#x77;&#x65;&#x73;&#x74;&#x65;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x6c;&#x61;&#x77;&#x2e;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x67;\">obispo@westernlaw.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Jones, Guardianes de la Tierra Salvaje, 720-443-2615, <a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#108;&#x74;o&#x3a;&#x74;&#106;&#x6f;n&#101;&#x73;&#64;&#119;&#x69;&#108;&#x64;e&#97;&#x72;t&#104;&#x67;&#117;&#x61;&#x72;&#100;&#x69;a&#110;&#x73;&#46;&#x6f;&#x72;&#103;\">tjones@wildearthguardians.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyndi Tuell, Proyecto de cuencas hidrogr\u00e1ficas occidentales, 520-272-2454, <a href=\"mail&#116;&#111;&#58;&#99;&#121;&#110;&#100;&#x69;&#x40;&#x77;&#x65;&#x73;&#x74;&#x65;&#x72;&#x6e;wate&#114;&#115;&#104;&#101;&#100;&#115;&#46;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x67;\">cyndi@westernwatersheds.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, wildlife advocates challenged the federal government\u2019s denial of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the Sonoran desert tortoise in federal court. WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u2019s (Service) decision because the agency failed to consider science on climate change and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wildlife advocates fight to force feds to protect Sonoran desert tortoise - Western Environmental Law Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/es\/wildlife-advocates-fight-force-feds-protect-sonoran-desert-tortoise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wildlife advocates fight to force feds to protect Sonoran desert tortoise - Western Environmental Law Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, wildlife advocates challenged the federal government\u2019s denial of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the Sonoran desert tortoise in federal court. 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