“Endangered species” means a native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant which is in serious danger of becoming extinct throughout all, or a significant portion, of its range due to one or more causes, including loss of habitat, change in habitat, overexploitation, predation, competition, or disease. Any species determined by the commission as “endangered” on or before January 1, 1985, is an “endangered species.”
Cal. Fish & Game Code § 2062
General Provisions
Known as the California Endangered Species Act
The act spans §§ 2050–2089 (72 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Mountain Lion Foundation v. Fish & Game Commission (1997)
Most recently applied in Center for Biological Diversity v. California Fish and Game Commission (April 2011)
Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1240, Sec. 2.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.