The ESA mandate: save every endangered plant & animal -enjoyed nearly unanimous bipartisan support, has had mixed results, stymied by the usual suspects:
Though the ESA prohibits the fed govt from doing anything that'd harm an endangered species, Imlay says that if he wanted to keep his job, he sometimes had to work around the bureaucracy.
One of their biggest threats was dams. Imlay surreptitiously stopped TVA & the USACE from building eight-.
Trends in 923 terrestrial #insect assemblages monitored in 106 studies show declines in abundance and species richness, mostly driven by widespread declines of formerly abundant species.
The underlying causes might be associated with recent anthropogenic changes.
"their general declines are likely to have broad repercussions for food webs and ecosystem functioning"
Most of Brazil’s 701 native mammal species provide critical ecosystem services that benefit people, according to a new study.
However, more than half of the species providing ecosystem services are categorized as threatened and have likely lost their ability to provide these services in a meaningful way.