(NewsNation) — Fired federal workers warned the Trump administration’s cuts to federal science agencies could put endangered animals at a greater risk of becoming extinct, according to The Guardian.
The Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency have fired thousands of employees with science agencies and stopped funding at the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
The Endangered Species Coalition has called for members of Congress to support the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act to prevent more cuts to wildlife preservation.
Some staffers that were a part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service program to save the endangered black-footed ferret were fired, and funds for the animals’ conservation were frozen, according to Vox.
Nearly 400 workers with the FWS were fired as DOGE looks to shrink the federal workforce.
A judge recently ruled that some of the firings at federal agencies were likely unlawful and has set a hearing on the issue for March 13.