From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): As we head into winter, Florida’s manatees face a perilous future. The manatees aren’t finding enough to eat in the places that will keep them warm — meaning they will have to venture out in the cold … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering stripping Southern sea otters of their Endangered Species Act protections. Southern sea otters were decimated in the early 1900s by the maritime fur trade. In 1977, the Southern … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Bees need our help. Both wild bees and honeybees are dying off at unsustainable rates. Overall, eight unique species of bees are already listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, and that’s just the … Continued
From the Endangered Species Coalition (https://www.endangered.org/): In passing the climate bill, (the Inflation Reduction Act), Congress took a large set of steps to respond to a warming world. The bill is far from perfect. However, if its benefits are incurred … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): One-third of North American species — including bumblebees, butterflies, and hummingbirds — are at risk of extinction.1 Right now, over 1,300 species are listed under the Endangered Species Act as either endangered or threatened.2 Another 12,000 are … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): The American bumblebee is teetering on the edge of collapse. The sight of these bumblebees lazily floating over fields and meadows has all but vanished. The American bumblebee population has plummeted by 90% in the past two … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): In the last 20 years, the western monarch population has plummeted to only 2,000 butterflies, and the eastern population has fallen by roughly 80 percent.1 They need Endangered Species Act protections to survive — and while the Biden … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): At least 47 species have gone completely extinct while waiting to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.1 And now, after the Trump administration weakened how the law is enforced, the fate of monarch butterflies, Northern spotted owls and … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): In one of its final acts, the previous administration struck down vital protections for Northern spotted owls: The administration opened up 3.4 million acres of their protected habitat for logging and other development.1 Scientists believe that all of … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Bees aren’t the only pollinators at risk. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), we’ve lost 970 million monarch butterflies since their peak in the 1990s.1 That’s a decline of 90 percent of the monarch … Continued