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The bill provides legal certainty and lighter administrative burdens for trade and owners of the Bukharan markhor in the U.S., but does so by removing U.S. ESA protection and limiting future federal response—weakening U.S. conservation leverage and potentially increasing risks to wild populations abroad.
Exporters, importers, private owners, and small businesses that trade in or possess the Bukharan markhor will face fewer U.S. regulatory restrictions and gain greater legal certainty because the bill bars listing that subspecies under the ESA.
Federal resource and permitting staff (and taxpayers indirectly) experience reduced administrative burden because the bill narrows the set of non‑U.S. subspecies subject to ESA listing processes.
International conservation groups, rural communities, and wild populations abroad face increased risk because removing U.S. ESA protection and related trade restrictions weakens U.S. leverage and may increase legal trade, transport, or commercialization that can harm vulnerable populations overseas.
State wildlife agencies and conservation organizations lose a U.S. federal backstop because the bill limits the Interior Secretary's ability to list the Bukharan markhor in response to new scientific evidence, constraining future U.S. conservation action.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Deletes seven named non‑U.S. species from the ESA lists and bars the Secretary from listing the Bukharan markhor as threatened or endangered.
Removes seven named non‑U.S. species from the lists of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act and adds a statutory prohibition preventing the Secretary of the Interior from listing the Bukharan markhor as threatened or endangered. The change alters the text of the ESA’s listing provisions to exclude those species and to preserve the listing prohibition for the markhor.
Introduced April 2, 2025 by Charles Roy · Last progress April 2, 2025