President Trump’s administration has been reluctant to use its power to protect species threatened with extinction, as scientists around the globe warn of a deepening crisis in the loss of biodiversity. More than two full years into Trump’s presidency, the nation’s two main wildlife agencies have listed a total of 17 species as threatened or endangered, according to data compiled by the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental nonprofit group. That’s far behind the pace of the Barack Obama administration, which listed an average of 35 species per year and in total placed Endangered Species Act protections on 358 different kinds of plants and animals. It’s also behind the pace of some past Republican administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, who respectively oversaw an average of 58 and 32 listings annually. The […]