# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reclassifying Echinocereus fendleri var. kuenzleri from Endangered to Threatened
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2018-05-11 · Effective 2018-06-11 · 83 FR 21928
## Document
- **Document number:** 2018-10034
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 83 FR 21928
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2018-05-11
- **Effective date:** 2018-06-11
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R2-ES-2016-0137
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), reclassify Echinocereus fendleri var. kuenzleri (Kuenzler hedgehog cactus) from endangered to threatened on the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). This determination is based on a thorough review of the best available scientific and commercial information, which indicates that the threats to this plant have been reduced to the point that it no longer meets the definition of endangered under the Act, but that it is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/11/2018-10034/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-reclassifying-echinocereus-fendleri-var-kuenzleri-from)
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