Posted on 11/29/2023 8:50:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists’ warnings that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges and push them toward extinction.
Across most of the U.S., wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns. About 300 surviving animals in the contiguous U.S. live in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations in the northern Rocky Mountains.
Wolverines join a growing number of animals, plants and insects — from polar bears in Alaska to crocodiles in southern Florida — that officials say are at growing risk as increasing temperatures bake the planet, altering snowfall patterns and raising sea levels.
In the coming decades, warming temperatures are expected to shrink the mountain snowpack wolverines rely on to dig dens where they birth and raise their young.
The decision Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service follows more than two decades of disputes over the risks of climate change, and threats to the long-term survival of the elusive species. Officials wrote in the proposal that protections under the Endangered Species Act were needed “due primarily to the ongoing and increasing impacts of climate change and associated habitat degradation and fragmentation.” […]
Protections were rejected under former President Donald Trump. A federal judge in 2022 ordered the administration of President Joe Biden to make a final decision this week on whether to seek protections. …
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Plus they cheat
Assorted Prostitutes is really banging the gorebull warming hoax drum lately.
Soros and Bloomturd have given them their orders.
Wolverines can hunker down in the most brutal of cold climates while also handley taking out small platoons of Russians, Nicaraguans, and Cubans! John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache!!!
Communists are very good at solving imaginary problems.
Isn’t the chair against the wall too? 😊😆
They are scum.
I’m just here for the Red Dawn memes.
Because woverines wait for the winter to hunt because it is so much easier?
Beware the melting mountains.
This judge Dana Christensen ruled on it....
Monday, April 4, 2016
The Obama administration brushed over the threat that climate change poses to the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ordered wildlife officials to act as quickly as possible to protect the species as it becomes vulnerable to a warming planet. Wolverines need deep mountain snows to den, and scientists warn that such habitat will shrink as Earth heats up.
The ruling comes two years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected the views of many of its own scientists and decided not to protect the wolverine under the Endangered Species Act, saying the effects of climate change on the animals remained ambiguous.
The judge said in his 85-page order that the "time is now" to take action to protect the wolverine.
"No greater level of certainty is needed to see the writing on the wall for this snow-dependent species squarely in the path of climate change," Christensen wrote.
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It was 5 to 1. I got 4 of them.
https://youtu.be/9ShrEUP-vcg?si=pQJOoqg984hBhdFW
https://youtu.be/NI3QO86jb8A?si=Ev9peGcqwoz4-4No
https://youtu.be/5Qc8jJ0TjSY?si=7r-uET1mDHN1ud0c
Yet these same people have no problem with wiping out the rainforests of the Congo, with all of its indigenous plants and animals to build batteries for China
And yet there’s still snow on Kilimanjaro...
Alaskans should send some to Michigan.
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