Laws started to save critically endangered Florida salamander

Tallahassee, Fla.-The Center for Biological Diversity informed today's administration of Trump that it intends to sue the ongoing violations of the law on endangered species that harm the freenal -protected Frost -Flachholz -Salamander in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in North Florida.

Public records show that the refuge at the end of 2024 under the severance bids, a frosty flat wood -salamander breeding pond could be built with heavy machines and during the breeding season of the species could be sprayed with poisonous herbicides if Salamander travel from the pine forests to these similar ponds. This pond was protected as a critical habitat for the salamander. The prospects of the Salamander will only worsen, since more employees of the already understaffed refuge are released under the Trump administration.

“The damage to one of the few well -known Frosted Flatwoods Salamander Breeding Tonds is really shocking, and I assume that these horror stories will become more common, since Trump keeps shooting refuge,” said Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean and Senior lawyer in the center. “It seems that this outrageous mismanagement is due to a critical experience in relation to experience and experts in St. Marks.

The law on endangered species prohibits federal authorities to authorize activities that endanger the survival and recovery of the protected species or destroy the protected habitat that they need to survive. So far, the service has not submitted any records that it has completed a necessary formal consultation for endangered species to ensure that it would not endanger the species or destroy the critical habitat.

On February 14th, according to the guidelines of the Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, around 420 employees from the US fish and wildlife service were released, including employees who worked for protection and lists of threatening and endangered species. This step weakens the service staff and the National Wildlife Refuge System, which has been underfunded and understaffed for years.

The main threats for the salamander are the deterioration of the living space due to inadequate management, extreme weather such as extended droughts and strong hurricanes that are driven by climate change, and lack of funds to combat recovery actions that are necessary to secure a future for species.

Frosted Flatwoods Salamander, originally protected as “Flatwoods Salamander” in 1999, received endangered species protection in 2009 after a taxonomic new classification. At that time, the Frosted Flatwoods Salamander was found in 25 difficult populations in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. By 2015, this estimate was reduced to only nine -known population groups that were distributed in these three states, although it is unclear whether the only historical population continues to exist in South Carolina.

Due to these steep declines, the service biologists recommended that frosty flat forests of threatening threats to classify frosty flat forests.

“Our legal announcement underlines the strong costs for the support of a federal workforce, the task of which is to protect the sensitive life of life that we all need to be happy and healthy,” said Bennett. “Americans take care of the protection of endangered species.

Frosted Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma Cingulatum) are black to chocolate black amphibians with light gray lines and stains that form a crossed pattern on their back.

The Salamander live in some places in the lower southeast of coastal level in Longleaf Pine Slash Pine Flatwoods. They spend most of their lives underground in river caves, root canals or their own cave. They appear in the early winter rain to breed in small, isolated seasonal wetlands. These short -lived breeding pools are of crucial importance for the life cycle.