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vertical-align: baseline;">Environmental groups today sought
Endangered Species Act protections for the American
bumblebee, noting a serious population decline some estimate
at 89% over the past two decades.</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">"We're asking President Biden to
be the hero that steps up and saves the American bumblebee
from extinction," said Jess Tyler, a staff scientist at the
Center for Biological Diversity. "It's unthinkable that we
would carelessly allow this fuzzy, black-and-yellow beauty
to disappear forever."</p>
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vertical-align: baseline;">The organization joined with the
Bombus Pollinator Association of Law Students of Albany Law
School in filing the<span> </span><a
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the Fish and Wildlife Service.</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">The petition reports that "in the
last 20 years, the American bumble bee has vanished from at
least eight states, mostly in the Northeast, and it is in
precipitous decline" elsewhere.</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">"Once the most commonly observed
bumble bee in the United States, the American bumble bee ...
continues to decline toward extinction due to the
disastrous, synergistic impacts of threats including habitat
loss, pesticides, disease, climate change ... and loss of
genetic diversity," the petition states.</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">Urged along by litigation, the
Fish and Wildlife Service previously listed a distinct
species, the rusty patched bumblebee, as endangered in 2017.</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">Once common throughout the
midwestern and northeastern United States, the rusty patched
bumblebee has since vanished from 87% of the counties it
formerly inhabited. Habitat loss, pesticide use, climate
change and disease have all been identified as threats to
its continued existence (<a
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outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Greenwire</em></a>,
Aug. 31, 2020).</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">"It is highly unlikely that any
one threat has acted to precipitate the decline of the
American bumble bee, rather a combination of factors creates
conditions that amplify impacts," the new petition states.</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">The Trump administration proposed
listing the Franklin's bumblebee.</p>
<p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size:
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vertical-align: baseline;">According to the Fish and
Wildlife Service, the species is "thought to have the most
limited distribution of all known North American bumble bee
species ... and one of the most limited geographic
distributions of any bumble bee in the world."</p>
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Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory</pre>
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