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Article: AT 25, ROLE OF ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT QUESTIONED.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 27, 1998
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Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON -- When the Endangered Species Act became law 25 years ago this month, it was designed to keep the nation's most threatened plants and animals from going the way of the dodo. It's done that -- only seven of those species have gone extinct.
But they haven't multiplied like rabbits, either. In fact, most of the 1,100-plus plants and animals under federal protection haven't grown in numbers. They're hanging on -- barely.
That mixed result has fueled a sharp debate over the future of the law -- a symbolic centerpiece of the nation's effort to protect the diversity of the environment.
Those ...