Wolverines set for US government protection amid climate change threat

A wolverine in the Tahoe National Forest near Truckee, California (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP)

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a proposal by Joe Biden’s US administration in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges.

Across most of the US, wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns.