Trump administration rolls back vital protections for animals at risk of extinction

The Trump administration has introduced broad changes to America’s signature environmental law, in a move critics say will drive more endangered animals and plants to extinction. Interior secretary David Bernhardt unveiled a series of changes on Monday, one of which will end blanket protections for animals newly deemed threatened by extinction.Another change will allow government agencies for the first time to consider the financial cost of protecting certain species.The current form of th