Save the sand-verbena moth

TACOMA, Wash. — A conservation group says a species of moth found in sand dunes along the Salish Sea in Washington and British Columbia deserves listing as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Center for Biological Diversity accuses the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of violating the Act by failing to list the sand-verbena moth, despite projecting that five of the moth’s six populations will lose the majority of their current habitat by mid-century due to climate change and rising sea levels.