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"BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to
protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back under former
President Donald Trump.
Among the changes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a
decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly
classified as threatened. That means officials won't have to craft
time-intensive plans to shield each individual species while protections are
pending, as has been done recently with North American wolverines in the Rocky
Mountains, alligator snapping turtles in the southeastern U.S. and spotted owls
in California.
The restoration of more protective regulations rankled Republicans who said the
Endangered Species Act was being wielded too broadly and to the detriment of
economic growth. Meanwhile, wildlife advocates were only partially satisfied,
saying some potentially harmful changes under Trump were untouched.
The blanket protections rule had been dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of
changes to the application of the species law under Trump that were encouraged
by industry. Those changes came as extinctions accelerate globally due to
habitat loss and other pressures."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
