CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The US Endangered Species Act (ESA) is our nation’s most effective law to protect at-risk species from extinction, with a stellar success rate: 99% of species listed on it have avoided extinction.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 improved upon the 1966 Act, providing better protection to species habitats and considered species in danger of worldwide extinction. Still not satisfied with the protections the 1969 Act provided domestic species, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is designed to protect species from extinction as a “consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation.” This act is designed to protect both the species and “the ecosystems on which endangered species and threatened species depend."