HELP SPECIES MOVE TO SAFER GROUND
s climate change makes species’ historical ranges uninhabitable, translocating them—or removing obstacles so that they can move themselves—may be their only shot at survival. Anticipating that reality, in June the FWS added flexibility to the ESA’s regulations for relocating imperiled species outside their traditional habitats. Key deer in Florida, Karner blue butterflies in the Northeast and Midwest, and St. Croix ground lizards in the Virgin Islands may become candidates for experimental
