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Associated Press

A national environmental organisation has filed notice that it will sue the federal government over its rejection of Pacific walrus as a threatened or endangered species.
The Centre for Biological Diversity gave the required 60-day notice on Thursday.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011 said walruses deserve the additional protection of being declared threatened because climate change has diminished much of their primary habitat, sea ice.

The agency delayed a listing because other species were a higher priority.
But it announced last week that it had concluded walruses have adapted to the lack of sea ice by foraging from coastlines.
Centre for Biological Diversity lawyer Kristen Monsell said there’s no question walruses are endangered and denying them protection is absurd and dangerous.


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US environmental group to sue government over status of Pacific walrus as an endangered species

In this file photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific walrus cows and yearlings rest on ice in Alaska. The Trump administration will not add Pacific walrus to the threatened species list and an environmental group is threatening to sue the government over the issue. Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service via AP

In this April 18, 2004 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a walrus cow and her calf sit on the ice in Alaska. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the Interior Department, has until Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, to decide whether Pacific walrus should be listed to the threatened species list because of threats to its habitat, sea ice, due to climate warming. (Joel Garlich-Miller/USFWS via AP)