Environmentalists act to protect endangered kangaroo rat

From the Associated Press:

Conservationists are taking the first step in suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the agency cut the habitat for Southern California's endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat by two-thirds.

The Center for Biological Diversity, the San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society and the Friends of the Northern San Jacinto Valley filed a formal notice of intent Wednesday to sue the agency.

The conservation groups say the reduction in habitat will drive the animal closer to extinction.

Agency spokeswoman Jane Hendron has said the reduction was suggested for a variety of reasons, including new mapping technology that allows scientists to determine exactly what areas are critical to the animal's conservation.

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Comments

[Brien Comerford]

The Kangoroo rat must be protected from extinction. During the past eight years the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife service has been very detrimental and hostile to wildlife conservationists who want to to safeguard direly imperiled species.

[The Libertarian Centrist]

99% of all species that have ever lived on this planet are now extinct. Thus, mother nature is the greatest aborter of all species. "There oughta be a law!!!"