Flank attack by the Human depopulation crowd and the EPA? Alabama is working on depopulating Alabama - we are asking the 120,000 illegals to leave.

100s of species in Alabama, Mississippi could be protected under Endangered Species Act
Published: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 6:20 AM

MOBILE, Alabama — From Harper’s Heartleaf to the one-toed amphiuma, more than 100 kinds of plants and animals found in Alabama and Mississippi wetlands and waterways may be so rare that they should be protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, federal officials announced this week.

That’s in addition to the 123 species in Alabama, 44 more in Mississippi, that are already listed as threatened or endangered under federal law or are considered candidates for such protection.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will consider protecting a total of 374 new species from the Southeast, all of which were included in a petition sent to the agency by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Alabama Rivers Alliance, the Gulf Restoration Network and other environmental groups.

Typically, federal scientists select the species that will be considered for the list. But faced with reluctance among Bush-era officials to add to it, the Center for Biological Diversity began to challenge the Fish & Wildlife agency in court.

The new petition is predominately focused on species living in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Carolinas. All dwell in aquatic systems, including rivers, creeks, ponds, swamps or pitcher plant bogs.

The petition states that the rate species are being lost in the South “is comparable to the extinction rate for tropical rainforests.â€