# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRfij9vlJzT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37359563-centerforbiodiv-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7ecf7e4989.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-11-25T20:27:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

## Caption

Atrazine is banned in 60 countries, but it's the second-most used herbicide in the United States — even though it's one of the nation's most common water contaminants and a known hormone disruptor linked to birth defects, multiple cancers, and fertility problems. It's highly toxic to wildlife, poisoning habitat for aquatic plants and animals — as well as drinking water all life needs to survive. 

Even at extremely low levels, atrazine can chemically castrate male frogs, leading to reproductive damage that can cause major population declines in amphibians. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has deemed atrazine potentially harmful to more than 1,000 federally protected species, including California red-legged frogs, whooping cranes, and San Joaquin kit foxes. But now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claims that this poison's widespread use doesn't pose an extinction risk to a single species. 

Despite initial tough rhetoric on atrazine's dangers as part of its Make America Healthy Again messaging, the Trump administration has done an about-face and doubled down on perpetuating industry talking points that this chemical is safe. The truth is that atrazine does drive extinction, and the United States needs meaningful restrictions to safeguard iconic imperiled species — and people too. 

[Video description: No audio or music, wildlife sounds in the background. Two adult whooping cranes hunt for crab at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, surrounded by shimmering water.]

#Atrazine #EPA #MAHA #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain #StateOfTheBirds #BirdWatching #WhoopingCranes #EndangeredSpecies

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- **Views:** 2,717
- **Likes:** 1,160
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- **Comments:** 21

## Tags

makeamericahealthyagain, stateofthebirds, epa, maha, atrazine, whoopingcranes, endangeredspecies, birdwatching

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