WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on Nov. 21, 2024: TUCSON-- In response to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed giving Endangered Species Act protection to the Pecos pupfish. The small freshwater fish lives in the Pecos River Basin of New Mexico and Texas. Conservationists petitioned in 2007 for protection for the Pecos pupfish. But it took a 2020 lawsuit for the Service t more PR