Source: Bruce Henderson, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 7/24/18


Changes to the Endangered Species Act proposed by the Trump administration could end federal protection of the three dozen remaining red wolves in North Carolina, wildlife advocates say. Among their many changes, the proposals announced last week would let federal authorities consider economic impacts in deciding whether to add or remove species from the endangered and threatened lists. The proposals were among recent attacks on the 1973 law “on a scale not seen in decades,” the New York Times reported.

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