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We're celebrating a win for extremely endangered, extremely elusive Sierra Nevada red foxes!🦊🎉 Thanks to a Center legal challenge, a federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act in refusing to protect California habitat for these foxes. We've said it before: You can't protect a species without protecting where it lives. The Sierra Nevada red fox is one of North America’s rarest mammals. In 2011 we petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect them under the Act and designate critical habitat. Ten years later, the agency finally did protect them, but declined to designate any critical habitat. So we went to court — and the court found that the agency had made three separate legal mistakes in withholding habitat safeguards. Now it must draft a new critical habitat determination for the fox. There's been a lot of hard news surrounding wildlife lately, so we're celebrating this win for the wild. Learn more about Sierra...

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