clean water | Climate | Collaboration | endangered | endangered species | federal | fish | Fish, Birds and Animals | Forests and Plants | Great Lakes | Infrastructure | invasive species | Latest News | mussels | News | Policy | Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice | Protect | research | Research, Data and Technology | Science, Technology, Research | species | Tara | U.S. | Water Quality and Restoration Efforts | Wildlife
5 Reasons to Love (and Protect) Freshwater Mussels
This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
In September the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing 23 species from the federal list of endangered species — not because they’d rebounded, sadly, but because they are believed to be extinct.
