2013 changes watered down an…

2013 changes watered down an already weak set of procedures for protecting species at risk. Any more "efficiencies" to this program that favour businesses over habitat and species protection are not advisable by the scientific facts in the matter. We are animals too. We are connected to all this. We cannot live on money. We cannot live on "Open for Business" approaches that do not acknowledge the fundamental fact that we need a healthy environment or we won't have an economy at all.

The changes proposed would undermine the cornerstones of the law: we need science-based listing of species at risk and we need mandatory protection of listed species and their habitats. These proposed changes are another example of the government’s short-sighted focus on environmental deregulation that directly threatens our biological riches to profit the corporate elite.

The proposed changes would make it easier to destroy the habitats of endangered species. Environmental deregulation undermines our values, our prosperity and the fate of species at risk.