Making a Stink About Skinks

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had 90 days to decide whether it would list eight species of Caribbean skink as endangered, but it still has failed to act over six years later, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in a federal complaint.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had 90 days to decide whether it would list eight species of Caribbean skink as endangered, but it still has failed to act over six years later, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in a federal complaint.

Skinks are a rare lizard “endemic to a few islands in the Caribbean Sea and found nowhere else on earth.”

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