{"id":24247,"date":"2025-05-08T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-officials-ask-texas-court-to-end-protections-for-lesser-prairie-chicken\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T15:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:43:54","slug":"trump-officials-ask-texas-court-to-end-protections-for-lesser-prairie-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-officials-ask-texas-court-to-end-protections-for-lesser-prairie-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Officials Ask Texas Court to End Protections for Lesser Prairie Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has moved to end federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a showy grouse with the misfortune of inhabiting southern and central grasslands long sought-after for agriculture and energy development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a court filing on Wednesday, officials said the Fish and Wildlife Service had erred in a Biden-era decision that placed the bird on the endangered species list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s the latest in a blur of actions by the White House seeking to weaken or eliminate environmental regulations that constrain President Trump\u2019s \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And it\u2019s the latest twist for a species whose fate has been fought over for three decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lesser prairie chickens \u2014 known for the males\u2019 quirky courtship displays of stamping, fanning their tail feathers and \u201cflutter jumping\u201d \u2014 have declined from historic estimates of hundreds of thousands or even millions to only about 30,000 today. Habitat loss is the main culprit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the filing, in United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, officials said they expected to re-evaluate the bird\u2019s status by Nov. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although the species would lack federal protections under the Endangered Species Act in the interim, the motion stated that \u201cat least sixteen different conservation efforts and programs administered by state, federal, and private entities exist that benefit the lesser prairie chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But conservationists said the Fish and Wildlife Service would be under no obligation to reconsider the species on that timeline and predicted that they would have to sue to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Trump administration is again capitulating to the fossil fuel industry, ignoring sound science and common sense, and dooming an imperiled species to extinction,\u201d Jason Rylander, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRemoving Endangered Species Act protections is a purely political act that won\u2019t stand up in court,\u201d he continued. His group has intervened in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As far back as 1998, federal wildlife officials found that the lesser prairie chicken merited protection, but initially said other species were a higher priority. Later, the bird bounced on and then off the list of threatened and endangered species, caught up in lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2022, under President Biden, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/17\/us\/lesser-prairie-chicken-endangered.html\" title=\"\">lesser prairie chickens were again protected<\/a>. That decision divided the species into two distinct populations, categorizing the southern one (in eastern New Mexico and Southwest Texas) as endangered and the northern one (in central and western Kansas, central Oklahoma and the northeast panhandle of Texas) as threatened, a less imperiled finding that still affords some protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The petroleum and ranching industries sued in 2023, as did the states of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now the Trump Administration is arguing that the Fish and Wildlife Service was mistaken in assessing the species as distinct populations, and that doing so \u201ctaints the very foundation\u201d of the decision to list it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The leading global scientific authority on the status of species, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">International Union for Conservation of Nature\u2019s Red List<\/a>, classifies the lesser prairie chicken as vulnerable, akin to the U.S. listing of threatened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rylander with the Center for Biological Diversity said he planned to file an opposition to the federal motion in the coming days. The fight over the lesser prairie chicken is taking place as scientists warn that the planet is facing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/12\/09\/climate\/biodiversity-habitat-loss-climate.html\" title=\"\">levels of biodiversity loss<\/a> that are unprecedented in human history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Temperate grasslands are among the world\u2019s most imperiled ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = 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