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Center for Biological Diversity: Skinks Threatened by Habitat Destruction, Introduced Predators, Climate Change, Development Linked to Jeffrey Epstein
Skinks Found Only in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Threatened by Introduced Predators, Habitat Destruction In response to a 2014 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service todayannounced that seven species of Caribbean skinks may qualify for Endangered Species Act protection. These rare lizards from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are on the knife’s edge of extinction due to introduced predators and habitat destruction. “The Endangered Species Act can save these skinks,” said Collette Adkins, a Center biologist and lawyer who works to protect ...