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Protecting Endangered Species from Pesticides

  • EPA Finalizes the Insecticide Strategy

    • Read the Final Insecticide Strategy.
    • Read the press release.
  • EPA Releases Pesticide and Endangered Species Educational Resources Toolbox

    Learn about our Pesticides and Endangered Species Educational Resources Toolbox.

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, Bicyclopyrone, Benzovindiflupyr
  • Draft Chapters for Propazine 
  • 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

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Last updated on September 30, 2025
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