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WildEarth Guardians News Release

We recently shared important news about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) declining to protect the Joshua tree, an icon of the Mojave Desert, under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). As Guardians staff attorney Jennifer Schwartz noted, “we’re incredibly disappointed that the government, once again, has failed to afford future generations of Joshua trees the federal protections and help they need to withstand climate change, but sadly we’re also not surprised. Now Guardians is forced to explore whether another round of litigation is needed to show that the Service again caved to political opposition and arbitrarily disregarded multiple recent studies forecasting the Joshua tree’s future plight.”

Read more at  The fate of threatened Joshua Tree in limbo due to government failure to do more – WildEarth Guardians