The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. Categories: United States federal legislation | Official documents of the United States § 136, 16 U.S.C. Title 16 of the United States Code outlines the role of conservation in the United States Code § 1531 et seq. , ESA) is the most wide-ranging of the dozens of United States environmental laws In the United States, there are numerous environmental laws. Although they have diverse purposes, they all relate to the protection of the natural environment and other environments, which include the control of pollution and the protection of natural resources, and which result in the protection of both human and other life forms' health and well- passed in the 1970s. As stated in section 2 of the act, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. An endangered species is usually a taxonomic species, but may be another evolutionary significant unit. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has from extinction In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of a organism or group of taxa. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species . Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation Habitat conservation is a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore, habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range. It is a priority of many groups that cannot be easily characterized in terms of any one ideology."
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... Endangered Species Act . The state Fish and Game Commission unanimously voted this month to remove the falcon from the endangered species list. ...
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