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Weโve all seen the horrific photos. Desperate people, often with children and infants, trying to find their way across the Rio Grande, only to be met with razor wire within a floating death trap, all engineered by and erected on the orders of Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas.
When the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA) released its first ever State of Bats report this spring, it was intended as a baseline record of how bat species in North America were faring. NABCA is a trilateral network, with biologists and resource managers across Canada, the US and Mexico. With hundreds of bat species traveling throughout the continent, scientists wanted to assess how things were going. The results were stark. The data show that 52 percent of all bat species are at severe risk of population decline in just 15 years and more than 82 percent of all species
Another Trump presidency would be catastrophic. The authoritarianism he continues to espouse, backed by his MAGA cronies in the red states and the Supreme Court, represents a dangerous slide away from democracy.
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