Protecting Endangered Species from Pesticides
What EPA is Doing
- About the Endangered Species Protection Program
- Assessing Pesticides Under the ESA
- Assessing Effects of New Pesticides on Listed Species
- Litigation and Associated Pesticide Limitations
- Implementing National Academy of Sciences Report Recommendations on Ecological Risk Assessment for Endangered and Threatened Species
- Conventional Pesticide Registration
Protections for Endangered Species
- EPA’s ESA Workplan and Progress Toward Better Protections for Endangered Species
- EPA’s Vulnerable Species Pilot Project
- EPA's Final Insecticide Strategy
- EPA's Final Herbicide Strategy
- EPA's Final Rodenticide Biological Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy
- Effects Determinations
- Pesticide Restrictions
- Bulletins Live! Two
- Publicly Available Geospatial Data
- Process EPA Uses to Develop Core Maps for Pesticide Use Limitation Areas
Biological Evaluations
- Final Chapters for Chlorpyrifos, Malathion, Diazinon, Carbaryl, Methomyl, Atrazine, Simazine, Glyphosate, Clothianidin (updated), Imidacloprid (updated), Thiamethoxam (updated), Sulfoxaflor, Enlist, Inpyrfluxam, Cyantraniliprole,
Fluazaindolizine, Pyraclonil,
Dinotefuran, Acetamiprid, Rodenticide BE and Mitigation Strategy - Draft Chapters for Propazine, Bicyclopyrone, Benzovindiflupyr
- Provisional Models and Tools Used in EPA’s Pesticide Endangered Species Biological Evaluations
- Models and Tools for National Level Listed Species Biological Evaluations of Neonicotinoid Insecticides
Working with Our Partners
- Biological Opinions Available for Public Comment, Links to Final Opinions, and Links to Required Label Changes
- Memorandum of Understanding Between EPA and USDA to Help Protect Endangered Species and Support Sustainable Agriculture
- Interagency Working Group: Public Meeting
- Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Webpage
- National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species Webpage
Resources
- Pesticides and Endangered Species Educational Resources Toolbox
- Final Guidance to Registrants for Pesticide Submissions for New Outdoor Uses that Require ESA Reviews
- Final Guidance to Registrants for New Active Ingredients and Registration Review
- Proposed Guidance to Registrants on ESA Considerations for Antimicrobial Pesticides
- Information for Pesticide Users