US moves to protect wolverines as climate change melts their mountain refuges, threatens extinction
BILLINGS: The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges.Across most of the US, wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns.About 300 surviving … Read more