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Dangers to life
Lack of action
Sadly the American pika has failed twice to receive protection under the Endangered Species Act with the most recent denial coming in 2016. Scientist contend the denial was made for political reasons, not from scientific fact. They suggest that granting an animal, no matter how cute, protection due to climate change would open a whole new set of arguments within the political theatre. It seems so tragic that a native mammal which has been described as "one of the nation's cutest critters" and a "cross between a "bunny rabbit and a prairie dog" now faces an uncertain future due to the lack of action to deal with the ever increasing issues of the earth's changing climate.
