Canada Lynx

About 1,100 Canada lynx are in the contiguous U.S.

BILLINGS, Mont. °®¶¹app“ U.S. wildlife officials finalized a recovery plan for imperiled populations of on Wednesday and proposed new habitat protections in the southern Rocky Mountains for the forest-dwelling wildcats threatened by climate change and human activities.

The fate of the plan is uncertain under President-elect Donald Trump: Officials during the Republican°®¶¹app™s first term to strip lynx of that they°®¶¹app™ve had since 2000 under the .

°®¶¹appœThis is a significant change and a good one,°®¶¹app said Matthew Bishop, an attorney for Western Environmental Law Center who has been involved in efforts to protect lynx .

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