![]() ![]() Members of Congress try increasingly to overrule government experts on protecting individual species. Yet the law has become so controversial Congress hasn’t updated it since 1992 - and some worry it won’t last another half-century.Ĭonservative administrations and lawmakers have stepped up efforts to weaken it, backed by landowner and industry groups that contend the act stifles property rights and economic growth. ![]() ![]() Habitat loss, pollution, climate change and disease are putting an estimated 1 million species worldwide at risk. “And I believe very strongly that we’re in a better place for it.”įifty years after the law took effect, environmental advocates and scientists say it’s as essential as ever. “The Endangered Species Act has been very successful,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in an Associated Press interview. More than 99% of those listed as “endangered” - on the verge of extinction - or the less severe “threatened” have survived. ![]()
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