2.3 Natural Resources Changes
Changes since 2005, federal protection status (endangered and threatened) changes and corresponding state protection status
T ABLE 2.1
Common Name
Scientifc Name
Federal Status
State Status Treatened
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Bald Eagle
Delisted 8/8/2007 – Recovered Listed 10/24/2011 – Treatened (NW Atlantic Ocean populations) Listed 2/6/2012 – Endangered Listed 1/12/2015 – Treatened Listed 5/4/2015 – Treatened Listed 11/19/1986 –Endangered
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Treatened
Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus
Atlantic Sturgeon
Endangered (Pending status change from Special Concern) Treatened (Pending status change) Treatened (Pending status change) Treatened (Per USFWS agreement)
Calidris canutus rufa
Red Knot Rufa
Myotis septentrionalis
Northern Long-eared Bat
Canis rufus
Red Wolf
In addition to a listing status change for Loggerhead Sea Turtle, the USFWS designated critical terrestrial (nesting) habitat for the Northwest Atlantic Ocean distinct population segment. Tis designation was published in a fnal rule that became efective on August 11, 2014. Coastal areas of North Carolina, from Boque Banks (Carteret County) south to Holden Beach/Shallotte Inlet (Brunswick County), are within the Northern Recovery Unit of this Loggerhead Sea Turtle critical habitat (FR 2014) . Candidate species for state protection are plants and animals for which USFWS has suf- fcient information on biological status and threats serious enough to propose them as endangered or threatened under ESA, but for which a proposed listing regulation is pre- cluded by other priorities based on the magnitude and immediacy of threats and taxo- nomic uniqueness of the species (USFWS 2014) . Candidate species receive no statutory protec- tion under ESA. Te USFWS encourages cooperative conservation eforts for these species because they are, by defnition, species that may warrant future protection under ESA. Te current list of USFWS candidate species is available online: http://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/report/ table/candidate-species.html.
Te National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which has jurisdiction over most marine species, also maintains a list of “species of concern” for which more information is needed
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2015 NC Wildlife Action Plan
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