The Trump administration’s explanation for failing to protect walruses is laughable

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service once recognized that sea ice loss threatened walrus. Now it says they don’t need the ice because no one has proven that they can’t survive on land.

By Dermot Cole October 23, 2018
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In 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that shrinking sea ice coverage in the Arctic posed a threat to the survival of the Pacific walrus.

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