Endangered Species

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing marron bacora, a rare flowering shrub native to the Virgin Islands, as an endangered species. The U.S. Virgin Islands natural resources department first petitioned the agency to list the species in 1996. The plant is found in a single population on Tortola island and in seven fragmented populations on St. John. 

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