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>> ainsley: conservation groups argue that the lizards' habitat is so small that listing it won't impact drilling and the lizard issue being heightened for political reasons. >> less than two years ago the fish and wildlife service lifted the delta smelts in the san joaquin valley as endangered if you watch, you would know, that the delta smelts listing as endangered put 27,000 farmers in the san joaquin valley out of work. it shut 'em down cold. >> center for biological diversity studied oil and gas activity in southeast new mexico. we found that protecting the lizard's habitat affects less t...

>> conservation groups argue that the lizard's habitat is so small that it is being hyped for political reasons. >> less than 2 years ago, the fish&wildlife service lifted the delta smelt in the san joaquin valley as a danger. if you watched closely, you would know that it has endangered 27,000 farmers in the san joaquin valley out of work. it shut them down cold. >> oil and gas activity was studied and we found that protecting the lizard's habitat affected less than wob% of all the oil&gas lands and efforts to protect it will not affect the oil and gas economy. >> lizards don't have a problem...

With the caribou to the west. scientists tell us they are incredibly vulnerable to development and climate change. you are right i represent conservation groups and i also represent native groups in the past with the people on the southside of the range. yes they are vigorously opposed for those human rights reasons to drilling in the arctic refuge. >> greta: i'm running out of time and i have so many questions. the fact that there have not been any spills in the prudhoe bay area or leaks, is that the least bit comforting or is that not relevant to you at all? >> it not right. there's over a s...

With the caribou to the west. scientists tell us they are incredibly vulnerable to development and climate change. you are right i represent conservation groups and i also represent native groups in the past with the people on the southside of the range. yes they are vigorously opposed for those human rights reasons to drilling in the arctic refuge. >> greta: i'm running out of time and i have so many questions. the fact that there have not been any spills in the prudhoe bay area or leaks, is that the least bit comforting or is that not relevant to you at all? >> it not right. there's over a s...

Conservation groups says the bush meat trade is the single biggest threat to africa's animal species. and that's making it more of a threat to humans. >> contact with some animal in this remote village that previously might have led to the jump of a virus into that community that would have maybe infected a few people, maybe infected one person, probably would have died out. now all of a sudden that remote village is immediately connected to the major city and through air transportation and ships, through the rest of the world. so it's something that's in the middle of nowhere here, for exampl...