Tiehm’s buckwheat, a yellow flower that grows only at a specific lithium mine site between Reno and Las Vegas of Nevada, has been listed as an endangered species.
A Nevada wildflower wasat the only place it's known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet growing demand for electric car batteries, U.S. wildlife officials announced Wednesday.
The proposed mining and mineral exploration poses the biggest threat to the flower. It's also threatened by road-building, livestock grazing, rodents that eat it, invasive plants and climate change, the service said. It said an apparent, unprecedented rodent attack wiped out about 60% of its estimated population in 2020.
But the listing under the Endangered Species Act subjects the mine to its most stringent regulatory requirement to date.climate change"Lithium is an important part of our renewable energy transition, but it can't come at the cost of extinction," said Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which petitioned for the listing in 2019 and sued last year to expedite the plant's protection.
The conservationists who sued to protect the plant insist that Ioneer's mitigation plan won't pass legal muster. They pledge to resume their court battle if necessary to protect the buckwheat's habitat from the rush to develop new lithium deposits. "Ioneer's ‘Buckwheat Island’ scenario would spell doom for this sensitive little flower," Donnelly said.in Nevada
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