Group sues to protect pika from climate changeThe Associated Press
Article Launched: 08/19/2008 02:55:21 PM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO—An environmental group sued federal and state agencies on Tuesday in their continuing battle to list the mountain-dwelling American pika, or rock-rabbit, as a threatened or endangered species troubled by climate change.
The California Fish and Game Commission voted 4-0 in April to deny the petition, the first to argue that a species needs to be protected because of global warming.
Commissioners agreed the pika's environment of colder elevations in mountain ranges across the west is threatened by rising temperatures, but said they are working on a broader approach to protect all wildlife that could be affected.
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The Bunny Lobby strikes again! This time it is for the sodomite pikas, related to rabbits and hares. Let this be a warning to all lagomorphs, your days are coming. God will unleash the rapture on you for your crimes in the Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War. You can run, but you cannot hide, you filthy sodomite bunnies.