Trump administration overhauls key protection for endangered species

In a recent memo, the US government would no longer consider the unintentional killing of protected wildlife as unlawful.

President Donald Trump's administration will no longer treat the unintentional killing of protected wildlife as unlawful, officials confirmed Thursday, in a shift conservationists say effectively guts the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act