While the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is heavily criticized, a new report https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2015/10/19/123085/confronting-americas-wildlife-extinction-crisis/ from the Center for American Progress shows that the ESA is effective -- fewer than 1 percent of listed species ever go extinct. However, the act has its limitations from lack of funding to the decades that it takes to list a species as endangered.
Unfortunately, America's wildlife does NOT have decades anymore. In the United States, 1 in 5 plant and animal species is at risk of extinction, and realistically not every imperiled species will receive protection under the ESA.
The authors of the study see a solution: a voluntary, at-risk classification
Unfortunately, America's wildlife does NOT have decades anymore. In the United States, 1 in 5 plant and animal species is at risk of extinction, and realistically not every imperiled species will receive protection under the ESA.
The authors of the study see a solution: a voluntary, at-risk classification