Interior Department rejects 25 endangered species petitions, including several linked to climate
change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/05/interior-department-rejects-25-endangered-species-petitions-including-several-linked-to-climate-change/?utm_term=.0e3ccc654842
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The federal Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday declined 25 separate petitions to list a variety of species as endangered or threatened, including the high-profile Pacific walrus, which is contending with sharp climate change trends in the Arctic where it spends much of its life atop floes of floating sea ice.
The agency also declined a listing petition for the Florida Keys mole skink, a subspecies of lizard that lives on beaches and in coastal forests that face rising seas and were just swept by Hurricane Irma. The service determined that while the skink’s habitat could shrink by as much as 44 percent at the high end, most of the habitat and soils that the species needs “will remain into the foreseeable future,” at least out to the year 2060.
Other rejected listings included Bicknell’s thrush, a songbird that lives at high mountain altitudes, the Big Blue Springs cave crayfish, and the Kirtland’s snake. Fourteen separate species of Nevada springsnails were also rejected for listing.
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Stop them! Resist!
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f'ing assbites.
As an Endangered Species Act specialist, let me say this, and I mean it...
EVERY SINGLE SPECIES THAT IS ENDANGERED OR THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION ON THIS PLANET, WJETHER LISTED OR NOT, IS ENDANGERED BECAUSE OF LOSS OF HABITAT, PERIOD.
Never forget this. We are the culprits in the vast majority of cases by encroaching on their habitat with impunity. Humans are the only species, other than cockroaches, who are adaptable, with our technology, to all environments on the planet.
I have come to absolutely despise my own species over the past few decades and the intensity oncreases exponentially on a daily basis of late.
is that the two Senators who are going public about trashing the Act are from my state, along with the asswipe who is Sec of Interior. I am glad I'm not looking for a government job, I could never work in this administration, couldn't bring myself to do it when W was in office either, and I qualified for SES (Senior Executive Service) jobs at the time too.
I just want to scream but I'm in the library so...
