Lawsuit alleges federal government failed to protect rare L.A. fish species
(WorldNews Environment)

The Center for Biological Diversity on Monday, Jan. 18, announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to prepare an updated recovery plan or take other urgent steps to preserve Southern California’s unarmored threespine stickleback, a tiny scaleless fish known for its elaborate mating rituals. The critically endangered species used to inhabit the Los Angeles River and other nearby streams, but now survives only in the upper Santa Clara River watershed near the Angeles National Forest and a single creek in Santa Barbara County, according to the national nonprofit conservation organization. “These little fish have survived for millennia in Los Angeles-area...