Namibia intends to sell off 170 of its elephants in order to control herds that were progressively colliding with humanity in December 2020 and has claims to over 24,000 elephants.
[environmental groups sue to cancel Minnesota's PolyMet opencast copper and gold mine deal] environmentalists sued the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday in an attempt to overturn the 2017 land transfer to PolyMet Mining to build an open-pit copper and gold mine in northern Minnesota. The lawsuit, led by (CBD), a biodiversity center, claims that the project will destroy the homes of Canadian lynx and northern long-eared bats, both of which are listed as endangered under the US Endangered species Act.
A federal appeals court overruled the Trump administration's refusal to protect the Pacific walrus Thursday and ordered the Biden administration to consider protection for a species whose icy habitat is threatened by climate change. The Pacific walrus, the largest flipper-footed marine mammal in the Arctic, inhabits continental shelf waters of the Bering and Chukchi Seas off the coast of Alaska. It climbs onto ice to hunt prey, travel to new.