Canadian conservationists and wildlife experts are raising alarm after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration moved in July to weaken habitat protections for endangered species. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced July 10 that it was rescinding a decades-old definition of "harm" under the country's Endangered Species Act (ESA). It said Endangered Species Act protections would remain in place while reducing "burdens for landowners and communities." The repeal "fundamentally undercuts how we've been protecting species for the last 50 years," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species co-director at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups suing the government. "Likewise, wildlife need their home ranges and the larger area that they occupy, rather than just protecting the individual itself or its nest site."