Climate Change is Making It Difficult to Protect Endangered Species
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
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The landmark law has been successful for decades at stopping extinctions of several plants and animals.
Recovering endangered or threatened species to the point where they no longer need federal protection has been more difficult because of climate change.
NPR's Nathan Rott speaks with Martha Williams, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the agency's plans to mitigate threats of extinction caused by climate change.
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| 0:00.0 | On the Florida Keys, there's a species of tiny deer that at their biggest are only about the size of a golden retriever. |
| 0:14.2 | Stupid cute. |
| 0:16.9 | The key deer exist nowhere else, just these low-lying islands off the South Florida coast, and as recently as the 1950s, there were only about two dozen key deer left on the planet, |
| 0:28.0 | pushed nearly to extinction by poaching and growing development. |
| 0:32.0 | Today, though, they're so common... by poaching and growing development. |
| 0:32.6 | Today though, they're so common here on Big Pine Key |
| 0:36.2 | that for residents like Omar Bereira, |
| 0:38.6 | they're practically a part of the landscape. |
| 0:41.0 | Let's call Julia Little Patrick, who's lazily grazing |
| 0:45.4 | Barrera's yard. That's Emma. How do you choose these names? From movies. |
| 0:51.8 | Not much one. This one's the cutest one I think. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, Little Robert, huh? |
| 0:57.0 | Little Robert because... |
| 0:59.0 | Robert DeNiro. |
| 1:00.0 | Barreira says these deer know his schedule. They're here every evening when he gets home from work. |
| 1:06.0 | Like a dog. These are basically your dogs? |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, basically dogs. You see that? They don't run away. |
| 1:12.0 | They're nice, man. I love them. The key deer or toy deer as they're sometimes |
| 1:16.4 | called because of their miniature size was one of the first species |
| 1:19.8 | protected under the Endangered Species Act, which turns 50 this year. |
| 1:25.0 | And like 99% of the other species that have gotten protection from the landmark law, |
| 1:30.0 | the key deer has avoided extinction, 99% from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
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