Washington votes in a landslide to protect endangered species

The urgent necessity of protecting endangered species was brought home Tuesday even as Washington voters endorsed Initiative 1401 by a landslide that swept all 39 counties. Chinese customs officials seized the carcasses of 2,674 pangolins. The small, scale-covered, long-nosed mammals are one of the 10 species, ranging from the great cats and elephants of Africa to the Siberian tiger to sea turtles and manta rays, marked for protection under I-1401. The initiative forbids the selling, barter