I'm sending out this special edition of the newsletter because this has been a notably bad week for the protection and conservation of bees in the United States. As was widely reported on Monday, the Trump administration made changes to the Endangered Species Act that significantly weakened the one law that has been essential to the protection and recovery of animal and plant species on the brink of extinction. The changes will make it easier to remove species from the endangered list, make it more difficult for officials to consider the impact of climate change on species when making decisions (because the impact can be years in the future and not immediate), increase the possibility that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not designate critical habitat for all listed species, and allow economic factors to be considered when making decisions about the protection of species.
This was a bad week for bees
This was a bad week for bees
This was a bad week for bees
I'm sending out this special edition of the newsletter because this has been a notably bad week for the protection and conservation of bees in the United States. As was widely reported on Monday, the Trump administration made changes to the Endangered Species Act that significantly weakened the one law that has been essential to the protection and recovery of animal and plant species on the brink of extinction. The changes will make it easier to remove species from the endangered list, make it more difficult for officials to consider the impact of climate change on species when making decisions (because the impact can be years in the future and not immediate), increase the possibility that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not designate critical habitat for all listed species, and allow economic factors to be considered when making decisions about the protection of species.