I can't believe that Trump hasn't fought through this Pandemic to bring back the McRib. How dare he...
Posted on 04/19/2020 11:00:15 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
For more than five years, wildlife conservationists in the US have been clamoring for the government to provide Endangered Species Act protections to pangolins, a group of imperiled ant-eating mammals that are widely, and often illicitly, trafficked for their scales and meat.
The Trump administration, however, has refused to act and that refusal has suddenly taken on grave new implications. Earlier this year, scientists in China identified pangolins, along with bats, as one of the possible animal hosts involved in the transmission of the deadly coronavirus from wildlife to humans. How did coronavirus start and where did it come from? Was it really Wuhan's animal market? Read more Although there is still much uncertainty about the nature of the disease’s emergence, the unwillingness of the Trump administration, and the Obama administration before it, to provide legal protections to pangolins, and other species, has intensified scrutiny of America’s faltering role in international wildlife conservation efforts.
Scientists and advocates say these are essential to preventing the kind of pandemic currently sweeping the globe. Though no pangolins live in the US, an endangered species designation could make additional funding available to preserve the species, bolster efforts to crack down on illegal trade and send a powerful signal to the international community that the animals ought to be protected. Like HIV, Sars and Ebola before it, the coronavirus that is wreaking devastation worldwide is a zoonotic disease, meaning that it spilled over from animals to humans.
It is widely believed that the disease originated in bats and was transmitted to humans in a live animal market in Wuhan, China, where a variety of animals mixed amid a bustling human crowd. Pangolins, which harbor coronaviruses similar to the one that causes Covid-19, may have played a role in the virus’s mutation
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Satire?
Trump didn’t protect endangered armadillos in China (Hint: That’s the PRC’s responsibility and he couldn’t have even if he’d wanted too.) So he’s to blame.
Someone send a memo to the idiots at the Guardian: Everything is Trumps fault. GG. /s
So these critters live in China and not on US soil?
I can't believe that Trump hasn't fought through this Pandemic to bring back the McRib. How dare he...
President Trump has been busy protecting the people in the U.S., and preventing us from becoming extinct. Pangolins aren’t even native to this country. Why aren’t these a-hole conservationists overseas going after the actual folks who are bent on destroying the species?
The Guardian SPIT!
I’m not surprised that al_Guardian is carrying water for the CCP, but this is oddly clumsy even for them.
Sabotage?
This rag is one of the most politically driven publications on the planet. Pure unadulterated crap is what it is known for. Nonsense.
Leftwing rag.
“Though no pangolins live in the US,”
So funny...
Five years?!! Part of that’s Obama’s fault
Pangolin Pandemic?
Apparently the “Guardian” is losing readership to the “Babylon Bee”, and has decided to take the competition head-on.
Well, the Guardian is missing another big chance to attack Trump. He’s doing even less to protect mandolins than he is to protect pangolins. It’s scandalous!
It is somehow America’s responsibility to protect wild animals in Africa and Southeast Asia which are poached and sold to China to be eaten?
Laughable.
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