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The Oregon Senate passed House Bill 4134, the “1.25% for Wildlife” bill. The bill had previously passed the Oregon House of Representatives with bipartisan support. Through a modest increase in the statewide lodging tax, HB 4134 will fund wildlife and habitat conservation, primarily the implementation of the state’s Wildlife Action Plan, which has identified over 300 species as having the greatest conservation need.

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Experts were preparing a first-of-its-kind assessment of the health of nature in the United States, including many grim preliminary findings. President Trump canceled the report, but researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own, releasing the draft for public comment and scientific review.

Nature's ability to regenerate is failing in the face of climate change, according to the authors of a new analysis. Ecologists have long predicted that nature will respond to climate change and humanity’s other assaults by ramping up the rate of turnover, with existing species moving out and new ones moving in.

Restoring Florida’s fragile Everglades can help stem the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and contributing to hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms in this particularly vulnerable state, new research has found.

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