The City by the Bay will soon have a new leader, as Democrat Daniel Lurie was elected the next mayor of San Francisco on Nov. 7. A political newcomer, Lurie beat a fellow Democrat, incumbent Mayor London Breed, to earn the city's top job. 

While Breed, the first Black woman mayor of San Francisco, was seen as among the most progressive leaders in the city's history, Lurie took a more centrist approach throughout his campaign. His win "marks the latest in a push" across California toward "more moderate candidates and tough-on-crime policies," said USA Today. Lurie takes office on Jan. 6.

Who is Lurie?
Lurie was born in San Francisco in 1977. Through his mother, Mimi Haas, and stepfather, Peter Haas, Lurie is an heir to one of the most recognizable clothing brands in American history: Levi Strauss & Co. Both the "Levi's name and Haas family philanthropic foundations are deeply embedded in San Francisco's history and identity," said CBS News. 

What will he do as mayor?
Though he's new to politics, Lurie "delivered a clear message" that would "broadly resonate with dissatisfied residents craving change and eventually help win him the election," said the San Francisco Chronicle. Under Breed's tenure, problems continued to plague San Francisco, with "open-air drug dealing, brazen retail thefts and empty downtown offices tarnishing the city’s reputation." 

Lurie's mandate is to "show how government must deliver on its promises: clean and safe streets for all, tackling our drug and behavioral health crisis, shaking up the corrupt and ineffective bureaucracy," the mayor-elect said in his victory speech. One of Lurie's main plans is to "declare a state of emergency on fentanyl on his first day in office," said The New York Times. He also pledged to build more affordable housing and revitalize the city's businesses. 

Lurie will be the city's first mayor in more than 100 years to not have prior government experience. However, his "decades-long ties to the city's political, philanthropic and social elite through his anti-poverty nonprofit, Tipping Point, don't exactly make him an outsider either," said The San Francisco Standard.

Key deer, a species native to the Florida Keys, may be pushed to cataclysmic levels by environmental change. The smallest deer species in North America, with adults standing at 30 inches tall, have been dwindling in numbers throughout the 2010s, and there's a push by conservationists to increase their numbers. But with continued habitat loss from climate change, some experts wonder whether the so-called real-life Bambi can be saved.

Why are they threatened?
It's mainly due to rising sea levels from climate change, which are "already altering the landscape of Big Pine Key and at least 20 smaller islands the deer call home," said The Associated Press. By 2100, sea levels in portions of the Florida Keys will rise from 1.5 feet to 7 feet, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. On the islands inhabited by the deer, sea level increases will "continue to shrink freshwater and food sources Key deer need to survive," said the AP. 

Key deer "won't have habitat and will become extinct," Chris Bergh, the program field director for the Nature Conservancy, said to CBS. Their extinction could also affect other species in the Florida Keys, as the deer are an "umbrella species that's helping all the other animals that need this habitat as well," wildlife biologist Christina Wilson said to CBS. 

What's being done?
Legislation like the Endangered Species Act has been passed to help save animals at risk, but it's an uphill battle. If you "move the Key deer to a series of zoos like people have done with pandas," you can "keep them going, but at what cost and to what end"? Bergh said to NPR. "Is that really a future for the species?"

Even in the "best case scenario," we are "going to lose habitat for all of these species," Nikki Colangelo, the endangered species manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in South Florida, said to NPR. That's why conservationists "need to be considering some of these other strategies," such as relocating the deer to other habitats.