Endangered species face 'disaster' under Trump administration
Posted on AllSides March 6th, 2019
From The Left
Trump’s push to expand oil and gas drilling is eroding protections for some of America’s most at-risk wildlife
When America was choosing its national animal, Benjamin Franklin was determined the bald eagle shouldn’t prevail. The eagle, Franklin said, was a “bird of bad moral character” with a better option being the turkey, which Franklin considered pleasingly courageous if a little “vain and silly”.
Franklin’s view didn’t prevail, of course, but turkeys very nearly outlasted bald eagles in the US. Shot, poisoned and made homeless by rampant habitat destruction, there were...