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For Immediate Release<\/b><\/p>\n

December 20, 2022<\/p>\n

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Contact:<\/b><\/p>\n

Josh Osher, Western Watersheds Project, (406) 830-3099<\/p>\n

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Congress doubles down on the politics of extinction<\/b><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 In a blow to species on both sides of the continent, Congress has proposed year-end omnibus spending legislation that endangers the survival of greater sage grouse and the North Atlantic right whale. The must-pass annual appropriations legislation retains language that first appeared in the FY2015 appropriations bill to prohibit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from even considering whether the greater sage grouse warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This year\u2019s bill also now includes a poison-pill rider that adds loopholes for the lobster and crab industries that exempts them from taking additional measures to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Estimates suggest that there are fewer than 350 right whales remaining, with fewer than 100 breeding females.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when most global leaders have agreed to protect 30 percent of the planet\u2019s land and oceans by 2030<\/a>, manage the remaining 70 percent of the planet to avoid losing key habitats needed to support biodiversity, and ensure that industry discloses biodiversity risks and impacts, Congress is going in completely the opposite direction and potentially consigning both of these iconic species to extinction,\u201d said Josh Osher, Public Policy Director at Western Watersheds Project.<\/p>\n

Once numbering 16 million birds, the greater sage grouse population has dwindled to a few hundred thousand. The species continues to decline due to impacts from oil and gas drilling, livestock overgrazing that leads to invasion by flammable weeds, habitat fragmentation, and other human-caused factors. It shares abou 60 million acres of sagebrush habitats with a diversity of other native wildlife, and is considered an \u201cumbrella species\u201d that, if protected, would shield scores of other sensitive plants and wildlife from habitat loss and degradation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Endangered Species Act is the most effective tool we have to protect biodiversity and prevent extinction,\u201d remarked Osher. \u201cRiders like these that undermine the ESA and judicial review, are not only a threat to our system of checks and balances, but will embolden future efforts to roll back science-based species protections in the next Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

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