The US government is planning a major reinterpretation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), The New York Times reported and officials confirmed to AFP on Thursday. The policy shift was delivered in a new memo signed by Brian Nesvik, director of the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service. In it, the department will reduce the term "take," a term that relates to pursuing, killing or capturing of a species, to simply "affirmative conduct intentionally directed against a particular animal or animals." This change would no longer treat the unintentional killing of protected wildlife as unlawful.
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