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    The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving...
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    List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing...
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  • Thumbnail for List of endangered species in Pakistan
    Following is the list of endangered species in Pakistan.   Endemic to Pakistan Testudo horsfieldii Aythya baeri Sterna acuticauda Threskiornis melanocephalus...
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    The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was first passed in 1973 and forms the basis of biodiversity and endangered species protection in the United States. The...
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    The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-135) was an expansion of the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 which authorized...
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  • olivacea) Critically Endangered Endangered mammals of India Endangered species Fauna of India List of amphibians of India List of Asian animals extinct...
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  • are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. Identifying, protecting, and restoring endangered and threatened species and subspecies are the...
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  • protect endangered species. Section 4(f) of the United States Endangered Species Act from 1973 directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce...
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    Conservation-dependent species require maintenance additional to the use of the United States Endangered Species Act of 1973. This act is said to protect species from extinction...
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    National Park Service. Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in the United States, species may be listed as "endangered" or "threatened". The Salt Creek...
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  • one species already extinct, more than 70 percent listed as Wildlife of Special Concern in Arizona, and over 50 percent federally listed as endangered or...
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  • for species listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, not species listed...
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    flagship, and other surrogate species. Washington, DC: Island Press. ISBN 9781597261920. NOAA The Endangered Species Act of 1973 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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  • Endangered mammals of India are the mammal species in India that are listed as threatened in the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural...
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    Ozark hellbender (category ESA endangered species)
    fish. As of 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has listed the subspecies as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The population...
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  • (IUCN). It includes vulnerable (VU), endangered (EN), critically endangered (CR), and recently extinct (EX) species. It excludes near threatened (NT), data...
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  • Thumbnail for Alligator hunting
    In 1973 the American alligator was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The American alligator was listed as an endangered species...
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    Conservation Act 1999, which is known in short as the EPBC Act. This Act has six categories: extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable...
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  • under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 are automatically listed as such for the state of Illinois. The Illinois Endangered Species Protection Act created...
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  • adversely affects a species, particularly killing individuals of that species, as outlined by the United States Endangered Species Act of 1973. Although "taking"...
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    Snail darter (category IUCN Red List vulnerable species)
    portions of northern Alabama and Georgia. First recorded in 1973, the snail darter was listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973 by...
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    Rhadine infernalis (category ESA endangered species)
    endangered under the IUCN Endangered Species Act of 1973, along with 8 other karst invertebrates in the same region. It has the widest known range of...
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  • Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce, regarding the geographic area to which a particular section of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 applied. The...
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    The endangered species of China may include any wildlife species designated for protection by the national government of China or listed as endangered by...
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    reintroduce the gray wolf into Yellowstone National Park. When the Endangered Species Act of 1973 was passed, the road to legal reintroduction was made clear...
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  • for protecting endangered wildlife and environments. This was completed earlier than the Federal Government's Endangered Species Act (ESA), which was...
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    trade of ambergris is prohibited by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. India – Sale or possession is illegal under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972...
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  • An out-of-danger species is an animal or plant species formerly categorized as Rare, Vulnerable, or Endangered that has since been removed from these...
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    Nassau grouper (category IUCN Red List critically endangered species)
    Fisheries Service listed threatened species by authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The Nassau grouper is a medium to large fish, growing to over...
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  • Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    interpretation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. After the discovery of the snail darter fish in the Little Tennessee River in August 1973, a lawsuit...
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