美国鱼类和野生动物服务局主任布莱恩·内斯维克在9月14日发布的内部备忘录中，指示局内员工对《濒危物种法》进行激进的重新解释1。根据这份备忘录，员工今后仅在存在针对动物的明确意图时才能禁止捕获行为，而不再对导致濒危物种意外死亡的栖息地改变进行限制1。
备忘录中包含的具体案例阐明了这一转变的影响范围。备忘录指出"一艘无意中撞上鲸鱼的船只并未捕获该鲸鱼，因为该船的航向并非针对鲸鱼设定的"，以及"砍伐一棵树不构成对栖息其中蝙蝠的捕获行为，除非砍伐树木的目的是为了杀死或捕获这些蝙蝠"1。这一指示实质上将禁止行为的范围限定为仅针对那些"特别针对目标动物"的活动1。
The director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued instructions in an internal memorandum on September 14 to radically reframe how the Endangered Species Act is enforced, potentially weakening protections for wildlife.1 Brian Neswick directed agency staff to prohibit the capture or killing of animals only when such actions are specifically intended, rather than when habitat destruction or other activities incidentally result in animal deaths.1
Under the new interpretation, activities that unintentionally harm protected species would no longer constitute violations.1 The memorandum provided examples to illustrate the shift: "A vessel that inadvertently strikes a whale has not taken it because the vessel's course was not set against the whale" and "Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them."1 This reinterpretation narrows the scope of prohibited conduct to actions undertaken with the express purpose of targeting animals, exempting incidental harm from regulatory oversight.1
The directive is expected to ease restrictions on private economic interests while raising concerns among conservation advocates about the future of endangered species protections.1
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