USAID cuts are hitting global conservation projects hard

USAID cuts are hitting global conservation projects hard

On February 3, Elon Musk typed a now-notorious post to his social media platform X: “Spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone [sic] to some great parties. Did that instead.”  The actions by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency that weekend set off a dizzying series of budget cuts and firings that have dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development and eliminated billions of dollars of life-saving assistan…