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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Trump administration was wrong to reverse protections for the Pacific walrus.. The ruling will force federal agencies to reconsider what protections are warranted for the species as their ocean habitat warms.
The ruling comes more than a decade after the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, first petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the walrus as endangered or threatened. In 2008, attorneys for the Center said that oil and gas development threatened the species, as did the melting of sea ice that walruses use for habitat. ....
Following a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, a judge just rejected the Trump administration’s denial of protections for Pacific walruses. ....
A U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration improperly denied Endangered Species Act protections to Pacific walruses, animals reliant on diminishing Arctic sea ice for survival. ....
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. ....