{"id":365628,"date":"2025-12-23T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365628\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:18:15","slug":"public-urged-to-comment-on-proposed-trump-changes-to-endangered-species-act-maui-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365628\/","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.newsbeep.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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document\/FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0039-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rule changes to the Endangered Species Act<\/a>\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>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/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>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hawaii-Conservation-Council-1-150x150.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hawaii-Conservation-Council-3-150x150.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ADARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD<\/p>\n<p>You can even use an <a href=\"https:\/\/endangered.quorum.us\/campaign\/148647\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">already written opinion<\/a>\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>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD <\/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":2,"featured_media":365629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[179826,5375,5376,179827,192,179828,13888,179829,942,179830,79,179831,179832],"class_list":["post-365628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-4-different-rule-changes-proposed","tag-big-island-news","tag-big-island-now","tag-comment-period-ends-dec-22","tag-environment","tag-everyone-urged-to-comment","tag-hawaii-news","tag-make-it-easier-to-erase-critical-habitat-and-roll-back-science-based-standards-for-listing-species-threatened-by-the-changing-climate","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-proposed-changes-to-endangered-species-act","tag-science","tag-strip-automatic-protections-from-newly-listed-plant-and-animal-species","tag-will-significantly-change-way-species-are-treated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}