If you need a time frame, let’s say 25 years.
EDIT: my question is plural, but of course it’s fine to give a single species if you know of one
If you need a time frame, let’s say 25 years.
EDIT: my question is plural, but of course it’s fine to give a single species if you know of one
Implicit in your question is the assumption that environmental protections are effective, or that they’re even based on any objective importance criteria, apart from say economic importance.
It depends on how you define “environmental protections”. If you’re talking about actual laws (in the US, because that’s what I have real world experience with) that establish management of hazardous waste (RCRA); force polluters to either remediate or pay to have their own pollution remediated (CERCLA); mandate clean air (CAA) and clean water (CWA); and ban manufacture, import, and production of toxic substances (TSCA), then those protections going away would be devastating. People as a whole forget how awful environmental conditions were 50 years ago before agencies were established and laws enacted. Obviously, these things are not universal, but the laws are sound and effective. The recent gutting of enforcement of those laws and prevention of implementing new protections will have lasting effects for generations.
The question is about species going extinct. Despite all our laws, environmental devastation is still driving countless species to extinction, it’s just happening in other countries.