Species Protection
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Issues In this Category
Our Delaware River watershed is home to diverse array of plant, fungi, and animal life, some of which are either endangered or approaching endangered status. Recognizing the important ecological niches they fulfill, as well the vibrancy they bring to the region, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network undertakes efforts to protect and defend these species and the places in which they inhabit.
- Philadelphia Airport Expansion
- Delaware Deepening (Dormant, but expected to return when the Corps wants to go to 50 ft)
- Defending & Enhancing Species Protection / Restoration
- Red Knot and Horseshoe Crabs
- Bats – Proposed FWS Incidental Take Permit by 9 oil and gas developers for 5 bat species in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia
- Litigation: Delaware Riverkeeper Network , et al. v. United States Dep’t of Commerce, et al., No. 14-cv-00434 (D.D.C.)
- Atlantic Sturgeon
- Edgemoor Port Expansion — Incl 13 fans spinning in the River
- Upgrade Petition for the Hosensack Creek
- Dissolved Oxygen Criteria
- Litigation: Delaware Riverkeeper, et. al. v. US Army Corps of Engineers
- Salem Nuclear Generating Station
- 316b Cooling Water Intake Regulations Challenged Again for Fish Kills They Allow
- Salem Nuclear Plant
- Dragon Springs Development – Neversink River Threat
- Herbicides
- Ecological Restoration of the Paulins Kill River
- Bushkill Creek Protection, Northampton County, PA