American Burying Beetle loses ‘endangered’ status despite major threats from oil development and climate change – Center for Biological Diversity

American Burying Beetle loses ‘endangered’ status despite major threats from oil development and climate change – Center for Biological Diversity

TULSA, Ok so.— The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the downgrading of the American burial beetle from “endangered” to “threatened” despite the beetle’s absence in most of its range, continued destruction of habitat by the oil and gas industry and new information that climate change is decimating the species in the southern plains.

The decommissioning rule, released on…

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