U.S. federal government plans for a land swap that will allow Resolution Copper to build the mine will destroy the land in eastern Arizona known as Oak Flat.
It’s significant, according to officials with the Houston Zoo, because the radiated tortoise is a critically endangered species whose numbers are in decline.
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