![The whooping crane is one of many bird species protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a law recently reinterpreted by the Trump administration to exclude “incidental” bird killing. [Credit: Ryan Hagerty | CC 0]](/sites/default/files/Biden_BiodivCONS.jpg)
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President-elect Joe Biden ran his campaign, in part, on a promise to fight climate change. But climate isn’t the only crisis in town. The world also faces biodiversity losses on a massive scale. In 2019, the United Nations put out a report documenting the current biodiversity crisis, noting that 1 million animal and plant species could be at risk of extinction. And, just as with climate, the Biden administration could take action to protect biodiversity, conservationists say.
