If we don’t do something about climate change, the pika is toast

"The American pika was to be the poster animal for combatting global warming (after the polar bear, of course). Environmentalists were going to use the US’s powerful endangered species laws to protect the pika and other wildlife threatened by climate change and thwart industrial development contributing to their demise. But greenies have lost a six-year fight to put the impossibly cute critter on the endangered species list, which shows just how difficult it is to repurpose twentieth century environmental laws to fight a twenty-first century catastrophe."

link:  http://qz.com/88931

BTW:  These cute critters live uphill from our place.  Janine periodically places some sunflower seeds in strategic spots.  Occasionally we can here their high pitch sounds.