Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a number of new proposals that could significantly weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA), from a suite of bills in the U.S. House to proposed regulations by the administration. The ESA is a critical tool to protect and recover the most vulnerable birds and other wildlife in the country, and 蜜柚APP is committed to protecting this bedrock law. Many of the key provisions put forward by the administration and in legislative proposals fail to address the needs of birds and would undermine the goal of the ESA. Some of the more concerning provisions include proposals that would remove automatic protections for species that are newly listed as “threatened,” allow publication and analyses of economic impacts instead of focusing solely on the science, and make it harder to designate unoccupied habitat as “critical habitat.” Some of the proposals in Congress would take these potential rollbacks further, by rushing delistings, limiting...