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Podcast: Albany Law School Podcast
Episode: Insect Advocates: Helping get American Bumblebee Recognized as an Endangered Species
Description: Albany Law students and faculty are stepping up for a humble bumblebee.
A group of 14 students – with the unofficial moniker the “Bombus Pollinator Association of Law Students” or “BPALS,” for short – and Professor Keith Hirokawa teamed up with the Center for Biological Diversity to file a petition with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on February 1 to add the American bumblebee to the endangered species list through the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
President of the Environmental Law Society Claire Burke '21 and Hirokawa joined this episode of the podcast to talk about the work that started back in 2019...