The US Fish and Wildlife service proposed listing African lions as threatened under the act last October.
The African lion is not currently listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, although the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing it as threatened in October.
Published last week in the Conservation Letters journal, the study comes less than a month after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proposed listing 66 species of coral as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
DOI's Fish and Wildlife Service FWSS) proposed listing the polar bear as threatened in January 2007, after a petition and lawsuit by environmental groups (Science, 5 January 2007, p. 25).
In 2012, NOAA proposed listing 66 of those petitioned corals as threatened and moving the two species already on the list, the Caribbean elkhorn and staghorn corals (Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis), to the most protective category of endangered.
In 1994, the federal Environmental Protection Agency proposed listing the complex on its Superfund list, the program responsible for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated sites.
The Fish and Wildlife Service had proposed listing the small, spiny lizard as endangered, citing threats to its native habitat from ranching, agriculture and oil and gas development.
Based on the published consensus guidelines, the OPTN Liver and Intestine Committee and Kidney Committee recently developed proposed listing criteria for SLK candidate selection and allocation (Policy 3.5.10) (Table 9).
Federal officials propose listing the wolverine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after repeatedly deferring its consideration.
But Republicans in the Nassau County Legislature have proposed the same idea, having drafted a bill that proposes listing Level 2 and Level 3 offenders on the county Web site.
Mr. Laverty said the proposed listing raised "significant and complex factual and legal issues".
