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On 30 September 2016, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service determined that ten animal species from Hawaii, including seven species of yellow-faced bees, should be protected under the endangered species act: While the announcement is certainly significant — it is the first time any bee species from the United States has been listed as an endangered species — the news was spread with the misleading claim that the new determination applied to all bee species, and that the news media were ignoring the issue: Of course, that is not the case. A wide-range of media outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, National Geographic, the Huffington Post, and C|net all published stories about the plight of yellow-faced bees: While it's true that seven Hawaiin bee species were placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act by the United States Fish And Wildlife Service, this classification does not apply to all types of bees.
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