Endangered Species In The United States

Since earth was created, there has been a natural phenomenon of species across the globe appearing and disappearing. However, in the past century, many species of animals have been disappearing at an alarming rate. Mainly, this rapidly occurring issue is caused by humans. Humans that contribute to the harmful actions that cause side effects such a pollution, deforestation, habitat loss and poaching. The natural rate of extinction pales in comparison to the extinction rate caused by all of these. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the current rate of extinction is 11,000 times greater than the natural extinction rate. Several different efforts have been made in order to stop or slow down the extinction of earth’s species. The Endangered Species Act is possibly the most successful example of these efforts. It’s main purpose is to get a commitment from the American people that they will work hand in hand to help save species that are at risk of becoming extinct and never returning. This act was put in place in 1973 and since then, no other law about the disappearance of wildlife has been quite as accomplished. Many different species that are protected under this law are either fully recovered or on their way to becoming safer. Laws like these are helping many different creatures left and right, however, at the alarming rate that they are disappearing, something else needs to be done. What people don’t seem to realize is that we depend on many of the animals that we are

Many species vital to ensuring that today’s environment will thrive are becoming extinct. If a species is slowly dwindling, and in imminent danger of becoming nonexistent, this species is considered to be endangered. “One in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70% of the world’s assessed plants on the… IUCN Red List are in jeopardy” (IUCN, 2016). According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, upwards of 16,000 species are threatened with extinction, including both plants and animals (IUCN, 2016). Before becoming endangered, a species will show warning signs, either by starting to lose biological diversity or by losing the habitats for that species to flourish in, or in the worst case, both. The word endangered can sometimes be confused with threatened, extirpated, or extinct. Extirpated refers to the state of a species where its population has died out in a certain area or range, but other populations of said species still exist elsewhere (Olden, Julian D., 2008). When a species is considered threatened, or vulnerable, this refers to the state of the species being susceptible to endangerment and extinction (“Extinction crisis escalates”). So if a species is threatened, the first signs of endangerment come along, which are similar signs to that of a species in danger of becoming threatened, including lack of genetic diversity, or overhunting may be evident. (“Extinction crisis escalates”). When a species is labelled

An endangered species is a plant or an animal at risk of becoming extinct. Scientists have estimated that up to one-third of species in the U.S. are at a high risk of extinction. In addition to donating millions of acres of land, this is essential to the recovery and survival of the endangered; the Act has shown a ninety percent recovery rate for species in the U.S. The main causes of endangerment include loss of habitat, excessive hunting, and pollution.

The categories that they get on the endangered list are: population reduction, restricted geographic range, small population size and decline, very small or restricted population, and quantitative analysis

By the definition of the Endangered Species Act, a species covered by the legislation is either classified “Endangered” if threatened with

Could the Endangered Species Act itself become endangered with the current debates? Recently, many conservation advocates and government officials think so, pointing to the proposed policy change that could make it harder for wildlife to receive protection under the Act. So, what does the future hold for the Endangered Species Act? With more than 40 years since the passage of the ESA in 1973, politicians and environmentalists alike have analyzed the realities of the Act, creating an interesting current state of debate regarding conservation. With poor administration and provisions designed to promote good science and good sense flouted, the Act needs to change and improve to find the best middle available between the suppression of economic activity and the preservation of species within the United States. The Act now more than ever is in need of political cooperation that can both revive and reform it to best protect against future challenges and obstacles otherwise the act will eventually be rendered useless due to it ineffectiveness, falsified science, and lack of consistency.

Over the past decade, permitted by the Species at Risk Act (“SARA”), the former Conservative Government of Canada made a series of decisions that raise troubling ques-tions with regard to the conservation of endangered species in Canada. This essay exam-ines how the lenient wording of SARA permitted the Federal Government to circumvent the intent of the Act and to inadequately protect the country’s endangered species.

Tribal rights were Massively impacted by the Endangered Species Act. There is an order that clarifies and tells how American Indians are impacted by the Act and what is done for them about it. The order explains how federal government and American Indians are connected, also how the federal government is helping American Indians because of acts like the Endangered Species one. This Order further acknowledges the trust responsibility and treaty obligations of the United States toward Indian tribes and tribal members and its government-to-government relationship in dealing with tribes ( fws ) . U.S. can't just ignore the impact on the Indians that could create controversy. The Endangered Species Act effects American Indians lifestyle and what

The federal, provincial, and territorial government signatories under the Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk (1996) agreed to establish complementary legislation and programs that provide for effective protection of species at risk throughout Canada, including the Under the Species at Risk Act (S.C. 2002, c.29) (SARA), the federal competent ministers are responsible for the preparation of management plans for listed species of special concern and are required to report on progress within five years. The Sprague’s pipit on the other hand, warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service has added the Sprague’s pipit to its list of candidate species and will review its status annually. Both these acts will

The Endangered Species Act (ESA), is helping save animals that people are killing. sometimes for no reason. No one knows why? The ESA was signed by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973.. It was designed to help repopulate animals and help keep them from becoming extinct. The ESA is effective at preventing extinction because it helps keep animals alive and well populated, it increases tourism in National Parks, and also because no animal deserves to die unless it is a danger to someone or something.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was created to protect individual plant and animal species as well as their ecosystems. The act creates two separate groups: the endangered species and the threatened species categories. Endangered species are species that are close to extinction and threatened species are those that have a potential to move onto the endangered list. The Endangered Species Act does not account for how quickly any species can become endangered or extinct if it is not placed on one of the lists and nothing is done to protect it. This is compounded by the assertion that lobbyists also have an undue influence on which species are put on or removed from the endangered

Species that are considered to be near extinction throughout either a portion or all of it habit range are considered endangered. Species that are considered to become endangered in the future throughout a portion or all of it habitat range are considered threatened. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service share the task of administering the ESA. Species that live in marine environments fall under the National Marine Fisheries Service and species that live on land environment fall under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The importation and exportation of endangered species is overseen by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. (How does a species get listed as an endangered or threatened species?) Other key aspects of the act included funding for the land acquisition, prohibited federals agencies from actions that would jeopardize listed species and their habitats, and prohibited the taking of endangered species and special regulation for threatened species in regards to taking. (A History of the Endangered Species Act of

Since the beginning of life itself, some species have lived and prospered while other species have gone extinct never to be seen again by mankind. Because of this, some would claim that extinction is natural and not significantly problematic to the world that we live in. Others, however, understand that due to climate change, habitat loss, and poaching, more and more species are becoming endangered which leads to a chain reaction that can be devastating to ecosystems. Species such as the Chinook salmon, gorillas, tropical sharks, and polar bears are all directly affected by climate change, species such as northern spotted owls, Sumatran tigers, and lemurs are greatly harmed due to habitat loss, and species such as the sea turtle, Javan rhinoceros, African elephant, and the Red-Fronted Macaw are all affected by poaching driving them all closer and closer to becoming extinct.

The question is, how do we predict which animals may become extinct? The IUCN Red List is a system forecasting the probability of endangered species, nicknamed “The Red List.” The Red List is a series of factors that, up until this point, have been effective in identifying what will cause animals to become extinct. It also “categorizes species based on population-level symptoms of endangerment such as population size and trends, spatial distribution, and fragmentation (Stanton et al. 1066). Many environmentalists dispute the idea that climate change should be considered a factor on the Red List, so a study was done to show the rate of extinctions based on Red List criteria when climate change was included. The Red List says that conservation

Endangered species help to gauge the health of ecosystems and can help individuals become more conscious of their environments and conservation issues around the globe. In recent years, various species and subspecies of rhinoceros have become threatened, endangered, and even extinct. One such subspecies, which was not only endangered, but has been declared extinct inhabitat as of June 26, 2013, is Africa's Western black rhino (Lavina, 2013).