S.2204 Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act

Professor Palmer's Workshop group is spending this semester learning about the Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act.  This bill "requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a national strategy for assisting wildlife populations and habitats in adapting to the impact of global warming."  The bill aims to assist wildlife in adapting to climate change through research and creating new coping strategies for impacted species.  The goals of the bill center around imperiled species; enhancing the monitoring of current and prospective programs, guiding restorative efforts with its newly established advisory board, establishing corridors for wildlife, reducing threats that are not related to climate, and improving the management wildlife. The group also outlined the breadth of why this act is so critical: economic interest, ecological impact, and moral commitment.  The group has studied habitat protection and restoration, the management of migration corridors, relocation of species, and the monitoring programs that are being developed and implemented through this Act.

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