Actually this has been going on for years.
Reminds me of "Ka" the snake from the "The Jungle Book" singing to Mowgli to "go to sleep" and "trussssst in me".... while he wraps him up in his coils.
We are now beginning to pay the terrible price of having a politically complicit media. Fox is the only network that's even reported on this travesty. We hear a little about it here in CA but I'm shocked it's such news to you out of staters.
Believe me, this is only the beginning. The Endangered Species Act is designed to eliminate land use by human beings at the whim of liberal human-haters. The goal is to return America to roughly the environment and population that existed before Lewis & Clark. It sounds crazy but that's what they're determined to do.