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New rules governing the Endangered Species Act will harm wildlife, conservationists say

A new Trump rule shrinks protected habitat for endangered wildlife

A new Trump rule could shrink protected habitat for endangered wildlife Darryl Fears © Gerald Herbert/AP A gopher frog at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. A proposal to change implementation of the Endangered Species Act follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on habitat for the frog. (Gerald Herbert/AP) The Trump administration adopted a rule Tuesday that could shrink the historic habitats of plants and animals threatened with extinction, an action that opponents say will make it more difficult for them to recover. On their way out of office, the directors of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service established a rule that changed the definition of what determines a habitat under the Endangered Species Act. It was the second major rollback the administration has made to the signature wildlife protection law.