# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUBmzEJj81P
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54440139-centerforbiodiv-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-27T19:00:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

## Caption

Have you ever heard of a whistling pig? How about a rock chuck? 

They're commonly called Olympic Marmots, but no matter what name they go by, we have hopeful news for them and almost a dozen other species! 

In response to petitions from the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just announced that 10 species across the country warrant consideration for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

These species include Washington’s Olympic marmot and gray cat’s eye plant, Oregon’s Alvord chub fish, Donner und Blitzen pebblesnail and wonder caddisfly, and California’s Mount Pinos sooty grouse and San Joaquin tiger beetle. Also included are the Wilson’s phalarope, a migratory bird suffering because of the decline of the Great Salt Lake and other saline lakes, Alabama’s stippled studfish, and the mysterious lantern firefly in Delaware and Maryland.

“I’m relieved to see these 10 precious plants and animals move closer to the protection they so desperately need,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species co-director at the Center. “Unfortunately they’re joining a backlog of hundreds of species waiting for safeguards during an administration that didn’t protect a single species last year — the first time that’s happened since 1981. As the global extinction crisis deepens, imperiled wildlife need the Endangered Species Act’s strong protections now more than ever.”

Like species around the globe these 10 animals and plants face a range of threats including habitat destruction, climate change, over-use of water, and increasingly the breakdown of ecosystems that support humans just as much as they do these species.

Read our press release to get the full story by going to the link in our bio and selecting this post. 

[Image description: An Olympic Marmot lounges on a rock, surrounded by wildflowers. White text in a black box at the top of the image shows a quote from Noah Greenwald, Endangered Species Co-director.]

#EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredSpeciesAct #ESA #WildlifeConservation

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