Endangered Species Act?

Question

description of endangered species act

Answer 1

Endangered Species Act of 1973 – created the threatened and endangered listing process, designation of critical habitat, acquisition of habitat with monies from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, prohibition of taking and trade in threatened and endangered species

Answer 2

this might help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_...

Answer 3

Don't let people tell you lies you have all the information right here.

Answer 4

Here's their website address:

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/esa/

Answer 5

Just to get a few "thumbs down"...

One thing to remember about the ESA, is that many environmental organizations use the ESA as a club to force their agendas and/or bankrupt farmers, ranchers, and other people who make their livings off the land...  At times, it has also been shown that the more rabid environmentalists aren't above falsifying information so they can fraudulently use the ESA to forward their agendas.  When?  Remember when some environmentalists working for the Forest Service planted hairs from Canadian Lynx in the Pacific Northwest while Clinton was in office?  Yup...  They planted hairs from the same lynx all over the forests up there to try and prove there was a large population of lynx so they could halt logging in those forests...  Never mind that the Canadian Lynx didn't and doesn't actually live in that portion of those forests.

Oh, and did they get fired or fined?  Not that I recall...

Answer 6

This monumental and groundbreaking legislation was signed into law by President Nixon in December of 1973. The endangered Species Act (or ESA) finally enabled federal agencies like NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enforce the protection of threatened species. Further, the ESA gave these bodies the power to protect vitally important habitat; develop and implement sweeping conservation programs; and carry out restoration programs.

The act also has provisions to allow citizens and NGOs the ability to seek civil litigation (or redress) to help protect the tenants of the ESA. The most infamous of these efforts was the halt of logging in the coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest -- to help save the spotted owl.

Additional provisions within the ESA allow for stiff fines and penalties for those found violating the act. This is what gave the ESA real teeth and the ability to be realistically enforced.

The current "administration" has repeatedly tried to undermine the ESA -- more so then any other predecessor. Fortunately a growing ground swell of support for the ESA and a renewed interest in conservation has halted the majority of their efforts.