The Endangered Species Act

Michelle Almazan

           The Endangered Species Act is the strongest law for protecting biodiversity passed by any nation. Over the past four-plus decades, the Endangered Species Act has repeatedly demonstrated that, when used to the full extent of the law, it works. The Act has been more than 99 percent successful at preventing extinction. It’s purpose is to prevent the extinction of our most at-risk plants and animals, increase their numbers and effect their full recovery and eventually their removal from the endangered list. Currently the Act protects more than 1,600 plant and animal species in the United States and its territories, many of which are successfully recovering. The Endangered Species Act isn’t just keeping species from extinction, it’s also helping hundreds of species recover. And we have hard numbers to prove it. Ninety three percent are stable or improving and more than eighty percent are meeting the recovery targets established in federal recovery plans.

Website- https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/esa_wild_success/