Pesticides kill 7 million birds per year. Fish and wildlife officers try to protect birds from deadly pesticides. FMC Corporation continues to sell deadly pesticides, and it hires away EPA regulators to work as consultants. Each Some 5025 species worldwide are in danger of disappearing forever according to the International Union of the Conservation of Nature. Lynx populations in the U.S. have crashed due to trapping for fur coats.
Trapping is banned except in Idaho and Montana.
Yet logging, road building, motorized recreation and fire suppression are destroying the habitat of lynx. They are dependent on snowshoe hares for their food supply. Lynx won't cross openings wider than 300 feet. Clearcuts, ski resorts, and mines create barriers. Now there are less than 1,000 lynx remaining in the lower 48 states.