{"id":466650,"date":"2025-12-23T13:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466650\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:16:30","slug":"public-urged-to-comment-on-proposed-trump-changes-to-endangered-species-act-maui-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466650\/","title":{"rendered":"Public urged to comment on proposed Trump changes to Endangered Species Act : Maui Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   December 22, 2025, 3:00 PM HST  <\/p>\n<p>Conservational Council of Hawai\u2018i needs your k\u014dkua (help) protect the state\u2019s endangered and threatened species and their ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hawaii-Conservation-Council-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80377\"\/>Photo Courtesy: Conservational Council of Hawai\u2018i<\/p>\n<p>That includes the endangered Hawaiian monk seal and brown booby, critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle and more.<\/p>\n<p>There are four different <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document\/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0039-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rule changes to the Endangered Species Act<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that will significantly change the way these species are protected.<\/p>\n<p>Each is important, and comments must be made individually for each rule. The public comment period for these changes has a narrow time frame.<\/p>\n<p><b>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The deadline to comment on the proposed new rules is Dec 22.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s proposed rules would strip automatic protections from newly listed plant and animal species, make it easier to erase critical habitat and roll back science-based standards for listing species threatened by the changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>Conservational Council of Hawai\u2018i said this is a coordinated effort to turn the Endangered Species Act into a tool for industry instead of saving species.<\/p>\n<p><b>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed rules which would significantly weaken the [Endangered Species Act],\u201d said the council in an email plea to the public. \u201cPlease send your comments ahead of the closing date.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"thumbnails \">\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hawaii-Conservation-Council-1-150x150.jpg\"\/><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hawaii-Conservation-Council-3-150x150.jpg\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/b><b>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You can even use an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/endangered.quorum.us\/campaign\/148647\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already written opinion<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0you can put your name on and submit.<\/p>\n<p>Conservational Council of Hawai\u2018i urges everyone to help protect these precious species and their habitats for the future generations.<\/p>\n<p><b>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 22, 2025, 3:00 PM HST Conservational Council of Hawai\u2018i needs your k\u014dkua (help) protect the state\u2019s endangered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":466651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[212284,14887,14888,212285,746,212286,48176,212287,5005,212288,159,212289,67,132,68,212290],"class_list":{"0":"post-466650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-4-different-rule-changes-proposed","9":"tag-big-island-news","10":"tag-big-island-now","11":"tag-comment-period-ends-dec-22","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-everyone-urged-to-comment","14":"tag-hawaii-news","15":"tag-make-it-easier-to-erase-critical-habitat-and-roll-back-science-based-standards-for-listing-species-threatened-by-the-changing-climate","16":"tag-president-donald-trump","17":"tag-proposed-changes-to-endangered-species-act","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-strip-automatic-protections-from-newly-listed-plant-and-animal-species","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-will-significantly-change-way-species-are-treated"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}