I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 576 
To save endangered species. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 6, 2013 
Mr. STOCKMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To save endangered species. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Save Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 
(a) Congress finds: 
(1) Captive breeding programs are an essential 
part of re-establishing endangered species popu-
lations. 
(2) While the scimitar-horned oryx is extinct, 
and the addax and the dama gazelle are endangered, 
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in their native Africa, thanks to the hunting indus-
try their populations are flourishing and thriving in 
Texas. 
(3) U.S. populations of the scimitar-horned 
oryx, addax and the dama gazelle are not taken 
from the wild, but are bred from animals imported 
in the 1970s. 
(4) A biologist and executive director of the 
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, tells The 
Houston Chronicle, ‘‘In this instance, Texas ranch-
ers have done an astonishing job of rebuilding three 
species of African antelope, one of which is extinct 
in the wild. When it comes to saving a species, gov-
ernment on its own cannot save those species. The 
private sector has to get involved.’’ 
(5) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wisely 
granted an exemption from certain provisions of the 
Endangered Species Act relating to the ‘‘taking’’ of 
animals endangered overseas, but flourishing in the 
United States. 
(6) An anti-hunting activist group opposed to 
hunting filed suit against the Interior Department 
seeking to outlaw the hunting of the scimitar-horned 
oryx, addax and the dama gazelle, and in 2012 the 
Interior Department complied, declaring their large 
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and flourishing Texas populations were ‘‘endan-
gered’’ under the Endangered Species Act. 
(7) Banning the hunting of an unendangered 
species in Texas does absolutely nothing to protect 
overseas endangered populations in Africa. 
(8) Banning the hunting of an unendangered 
species in the United States actually places overseas 
endangered populations in danger of extinction by 
removing any incentive to breed and maintain them. 
(9) Restoring the domestic hunting of these 
species is essential to maintaining healthy captive 
breeding programs if we are to restore or save them 
in their native Africa. 
SEC. 3. RESTORE THE PREVIOUS RULE. 
(a) Before the end of the 60-day period beginning on 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall reissue the final rule published on September 
2, 2005 (70 Fed. Reg. 52310 et seq.), without regard to 
any other provision of statute or regulation that applies 
to issuance of such rule. 
(b) Such reissuance (including this section) shall not 
be subject to judicial review. 
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