Dragofix3h ago

Trump Administration Moves to Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Wildlife https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-moves-to-gut-habitat-protections-for-endangered-wildlife-2025-04-16/

#nature #environment #wildlife #habitat #endangered #EndangeredSpecies #species

Trump Administration Moves to Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Wildlife

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— The Trump administration issued a proposed rule today that would rescind nearly all habitat protections for endangered species nationwide. These protections for the places where endangered plants and animals live are crucial to ensuring they don’t go extinct.

Center for Biological Diversity
Dragofix5h ago

Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat https://phys.org/news/2025-04-forests-regrow-regenerate-great-habitat.html

#nature #environment #forest #reforestation #habitat

Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat

Queensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what's not so well known is many of the cleared trees can grow back naturally.

Phys.org
Planetary Ecologist6h ago

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

Coevolution - Wikipedia

Levka7h ago

#EndangeredSpecies #habitat

"The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm.

On Wednesday, the administration proposed a rule change that would essentially prohibit only actions that directly hurt or kill actual animals, not the habitats they rely on. If finalized, the change could make it easier to log, mine and build on lands that endangered species need to thrive."

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5366814/endangered-species-act-change-harm-trump-rule

Show threadPhilip Withnall8h ago

Later in the day I found a live adder (which promptly disappeared into the undergrowth) — turns out you can (and should) report them too, at https://www.recordpool.org.uk/

#snakes #habitat

Welcome to the Record Pool

The Record Pool collects data on herpetofauna (reptiles and amphibians) in the UK, and makes it available, locally and nationally, for conservation purposes.

Philip Withnall8h ago

Found a sloughed adder skin while walking. A friend said you can send them off for gene sequencing to track population isolation, so that's what I've done. https://www.arc-trust.org/genebank

#snakes #habitat

Reptile Genebank

Send in snake sloughs (shed skins) and help to build up a ‘Reptile Genebank'

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Cosmic Librarian9h ago

Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't count as 'harm' under proposed Trump rule

The public has 30 days to comment on the proposed rule change. The move will also likely be challenged in court.

#endangeredspecies #habitat

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5366814/endangered-species-act-change-harm-trump-rule

Show threadNonilex11h ago

Boy they make those instructions seem tough, here I’ve simplified it by directly linking you to the correct proposed rule comment page.

Comment on the #Trump admin’s #EndangeredSpeciesAct proposed rule change redefining the word “#harm” here:

https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034-0001

#Law #Science #EndangeredSpecies #Wildlife #Habitat #Climate

Regulations.gov

Show threadNonilex11h ago

"You're not actually harming any of them directly," he said, but the end result is essentially the same.

The public has 30 days to comment on the proposed rule change. The move will also likely be challenged in court.

#Law #Science #Wildlife #Habitat #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation #Climate

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/17/2025-06746/rescinding-the-definition-of-harm-under-the-endangered-species-act

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Show threadNonilex12h ago

The #Trump admin cites Scalia's argument in its proposal, saying it's "undertaking this change to adhere to the single, best meaning of the ESA."

#Conservation experts argue that it makes no sense to adopt such a narrow definition of harm. "If you're a prairie chicken in the Southwest, & there's an oil & gas developer & they want to destroy your prime breeding display grounds, the bird can't mate," said Hartl.

#Law #Science #EndangeredSpecies #Wildlife #Habitat #Climate