Endangered

The Trump administration wants to drastically weaken Endangered Species Act protections that have protected iconic species such as the bald eagle and brought many others back from the brink of extinction. pic.twitter.com/CVaSgCQpr4

— NRDC 🌎🏡 (@NRDC) November 20, 2025

Trump administration seeks to roll back protections for imperiled species and habitat

There was a time when Republicans actually cared about conserving the natural world. Never thought I'd look back at Nixon, who signed the Endangeres Species Act into law in 1973, as a kind of hero, but compared to what we've got now, he is.