The Endangered Endangered Species Act

Thu, Jun 8
7:30-9 pm
Free

For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has been our nation's
safety net for fish, wildlife, and plants on the brink of extinction.
But in 2005 the U.S. House of Representatives voted to gut the
protective provisions of the statute, and several bills to eviscerate
the Endangered Species Act are being proposed in the U.S. Senate. If
these bills become law the natural world is likely to become greatly
impoverished, and as one of the top biodiversity hotspots in the
country the San Francisco Bay Area has much to loose in the process.
Join Brent Plater, Bay Area Director for the Center for Biological
Diversity, as he describes the strength and importance of the
Endangered Species Act and how current legislation will weaken the
law, defines where real improvements in the Endangered Species Act
can be made, and explains what you can do to ensure that protections
for endangered species remain strong.

Brent Plater works on a variety of endangered species and wildlands
protection issues throughout the country. He has been the lead
attorney on several cases brought by the Center, including cases to
protect the southern resident killer whale, the North American green
sturgeon, the unarmored threespine stickleback, the California red-
legged frog and dozens of wild and scenic rivers in the Great Lakes
region. Brent is a graduate of the University of Michigan's School of
Natural Resources and Environment, the University of California,
Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, and Harvard University's Kennedy
School of Government.

Venue:

Randall Museum
199 Museum Way
San Francisco
(415) 554-9600
http://www.randallmuseum.org

Additional Info:

(415) 225-3830
http://www.sfns.org