
[News] U.S. Ends Automatic Protection for Newly Listed Threatened Species
The government has scrapped the fifty-year-old rule that automatically shielded newly listed threatened species from being killed, trapped, or harassed, replacing it with a slower species-by-species process that wildlife experts in both red and blue states say they are not equipped to backfill.
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