Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the move "stabs at the very heart of the Endangered Species Act by giving federal approval to the killing of some of America’s most beloved wildlife." #EndangeredSpecies #EnvironmentalProtection #TrumpAdministration
Trump ordered the Interior Department to begin the process of removing endangered-species protections for gray wolves, allowing hunters and ranchers to kill them https://t.co/1THnP5mNJg #EndangeredSpecies #GrayWolves #TrumpAdministration #US
Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot — Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325 for the first time in the past 75 years https://t.co/ywvuWPspas #Kākāpō #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation #NZ
US to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development: the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. Destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal https://t.co/45rEW7ffHc #WildlifeProtection #EndangeredSpecies #EnvironmentalImpact #US
RT @StoriesBySammi: There are fewer than 10 vaquita porpoises left on Earth. Not 10,000. Not 100. Ten. 🐬 And they were supposed to be gone… #Vaquita #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
In the mid-1980s local surveys counted around 470,000 adult Bathurst caribou. Last year that figure had fallen to just over 3,600. Great @IlyaGridneff dispatch from the Northwest Territories on the devastating drop in the Bathurst caribou population https://t.co/VrYv5NHH1O #BathurstCaribou #WildlifeConservation #EndangeredSpecies #CA
RT @WorldAnimalNews: 🚨A precious new life has been born in Hawai‘i! 🙏🌺🦭 An endangered Hawaiian monk seal pup was born May 3 in Waikīkī to… #HawaiianMonkSeal #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies #US
