Trump Again Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, This Time by Much More

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Reduction of protected lands violates Indigenous rights and weakens climate/ecosystem safeguards. | The unilateral reduction of two national monuments directly undermines Indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and biodiversity conservation. It reverses decades of conservation progress and violates the rights of Native American tribes to their ancestral lands, while weakening climate and ecosystem safeguards. The action prioritizes short-term extractive interests over long-term ecologi