Featured, Wildlife - Thursday, August 28, 2008 20:36 - 3 Comments

Bush Removes W.Va. Northern Flying Squirrel From ESL

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared Tuesday that it has removed the West Virginia northern flying squirrel from protection under the Endangered Species Act – despite the squirrel’s small population and the looming threat that climate change poses to its habitat.

The squirrel was declared recovered despite the fact that it has yet to meet recovery goals in a recovery plan that was developed by the world’s leading experts on the squirrel’s biology and status, and that scientists have been raising alarm bells about the increasing threat of climate change related to anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Continue…