Groups to Sue over Arizona Copper Mine Project Threatening Mexican Spotted Owls

Mexican spotted owls near Copper Creek mine site prompt lawsuit against federal agencies

This article is co-published with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When the Bureau of Land Management approved mineral exploration for a proposed copper mine in Southern Arizona last June, it concluded that the project would have no impacts on the threatened Mexican spotted owl because of a “lack of suitable habitat” for the bird i…

Groups to sue over Arizona copper mine project threatening Mexican spotted owls

Three groups say federal agencies approved the mining project without properly considering a threatened species.

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Imperiled Mexican Spotted Owls from Arizona Copper Mine Project

MAMMOTH, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity, the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the Lower San Pedro Watershed Alliance today filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the Copper Creek Exploration Project near Mammoth, Arizona. The groups say the agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by allowing mining exploration drilling that threatens Mexican spotted owls an…

Tribe and Environmentalists Sue Feds Over Arizona Mine’s Exploratory Drilling Impacts to Threatened Owls

The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Said No Mexican Spotted Owls Lived Near a Proposed Mine Site in Arizona's Sky Islands when it permitted mineral exploration. Photo Evidence Shows Otherwise. By Wyatt Myskow This story is co-published with Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to community-centered reporting.