Endangered Species

 
 


The Endangered Species Act (ESA for short) was enacted by Congress in 1973. Under the ESA, the federal government has the responsibility to protect:

  1. •Endangered Species - species that are likely to become extinct throughout all or a large portion of their range.

  2. •Threatened Species - species that are likely to become endangered in the near future.

  3. •Critical habitat - vital to the survival of endangered or threatened species.

The Endangered Species Act has lists of protected plant and animal species both nationally and worldwide. When a species is given ESA protection, it is said to be a "listed" species.

As of October 2009, 1,361 plants and animals in the United States were listed as threatened or endangered. There are many additional species that are currently being evaluated for possible protection under the ESA, and they are called “candidate” species.

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What is the Endangered Species Act?

Web Pages:

Konica Minolta

  1. •This site has a fun set up to help you choose an animal to research.


Earth’s Endangered

Creatures

  1. •This site has lots of links embedded


U.s. fish and wildlife

service

  1. •What our government is doing for this effort.

  2. •There is a cool interactive link on the main page


Species Directory

  1. •Here is a nice list of species


List of threatened/endangered species

  1. •This is the Animal Welfare Institute


World Book Encyclopedia

  1. •username: worldbook

  2. •password: eugene4j


National Geographic

Society


 

Web Pages:

Animals a-z

  1. •This site lists animals by their endangered status.


endangered species international

  1. •This organization has a nice link in the upper right hand corner that will let you search animals based on their kingdom.