Wildlife diplomacy has united the Trump administration and Canada in what will be a joint bid to ease some protections for the peregrine falcon at an upcoming international wildlife conference.
In a draft agenda opened for public review this week, the Fish and Wildlife Service identified revising the peregrine falcon’s status as one of four U.S.-led proposals to be offered at the next meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, more readily known as CITES.
Conservationists had urged the federal government to support a more aggressive agenda to protect species around the globe. Instead, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s suggestions are targeted at four species.
The U.S. and Canadian proposal notes the peregrine falcon “has an extremely large global range distribution, a large global population size and an increasing global population trend.”
